Looking Back – February 7

2008

Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing gave 1,000 trees to the Solid Waste Management District’s Recycling Center to be distributed to the public during Arbor Day activities.

1993

Gasoline prices in Columbus, Seymour and North Vernon were higher than other places in the state because local oil companies and gasoline retailers were involved in a price standoff.

1968

Columbus city officials studied copies of a Texas law that gave local communities the option to levy a local sales tax to supplement or reduce property taxes.