Looking Back – May 16

2008

Bartholomew Consolidated School Board was told the new 46,000-square-foot building on 25th Street that was to become Columbus Signature Academy was on schedule to open in the fall.

1993

Longtime Columbus coach Bill Stearman was one of 13 men named to the 1943 Indiana All-Star team, 50 years after the annual series with Kentucky was suspended because of the country’s involvement in World War II.

1968

While underground tanks at a nearby service station were being filled, gasoline fumes seeped into a beauty shop and were ignited by the flame of a gas water heater, slightly burning a local woman.