2008
Bartholomew Consolidated School Board approved giving secondary schools the right to search students’ phones if they were believed to contain material that was inappropriate or obstructive to education.
1993
Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph “Joe Bill” Whipker was named Indiana Police Officer of the Year in recognition of his heroic actions in pulling a 3-year-old child from a mobile home fire.
1968
County officials were unpleasantly surprised when they opened construction bids and found the lowest some $132,000 over the architect’s estimate for the proposed remodeling of the courthouse.
