Looking Back – April 5

2008

A semitrailer filled with 40,000 potatoes jack-knifed and leaked oil and fuel on southbound Interstate 65 near Seymour, closing one lane for nearly eight hours.

1993

Elementary school students from Parkside in Columbus and Emerson in Seymour captured Indiana Odyssey of the Mind state championships, earning berths in the world championships in Baltimore in June.

1968

Members of Meridian Kiwanis Club began their annual door-to-door fundraiser, selling 4,000 bags of charcoal for $1 each to benefit a summer hearing clinic for schoolchildren.