Looking Back – August 7

2008

Columbus City Council voted unanimously to bond $4 million for a second downtown parking garage and $6 million for The Commons.

1993

Area high school football teams put on pads for the first official day of practice for the upcoming season.

1968

A possible kidnapping reported to Columbus Police by a passing motorist turned out to be an auto mechanic climbing into the trunk of a car to listen for a rattle.