2008
Crossing guard salaries were in danger of being cut from the Columbus city budget as officials searched for ways to shed expenses, suggesting Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. assume the cost, about $195,000 annually, to pay 27 full-time and four part-time guards.
1993
Columbus Mayor Robert Stewart was elected first vice president of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns and Bartholomew County Auditor Sue Paris was elected second vice president of the Association of Indiana Counties.
1968
Bartholomew County Commissioners indicated they planned to close county-operated dumps to industry soon because the facilities lacked capacity to handle the amount of trash and refuse being unloaded at them.
