Looking Back – January 7

2008

Scottish Festival organizers began planning the next summer’s event but issued a plea for at least 150 volunteers to bulk up dwindling numbers of workers.

1993

Mill Race Park was closed again for completion of an $8 million landscaping and construction project after 21,000 cars drove through it during the Festival of Lights.

1968

With rate increases due to begin in two days, Columbus Post Office had not received its order of 100,000 6-cent stamps.