Looking Back – October 20

2008

Firefighters believed an arsonist started a blaze that totally destroyed the old Azalia School building.

1993

Columbus community groups reviewed the city’s homeless problem but stopped short of finding a successor to take over the Emergency Homeless Shelter on Chestnut Street, which was scheduled to close Dec. 31.

1968

Nearly 60 percent of school bus drivers in Bartholomew County began voluntarily renting uniforms to help identify them as drivers and add a mark of professionalism.