Looking Back – December 10

2008

About 80 people erupted in cheers after Bartholomew County Council members voted unanimously to retain the 4-H extension educator’s position through 2009, a position that was in danger of being trimmed from the budget.

1993

Members of the Solid Waste Management Authority voted unanimously to continue providing recycling drop boxes at seven locations in the county despite a $20,000 increase in the cost to have them picked up by Rumpke of Indiana.

1968

The office of County Treasurer Virgil Scheidt was the first to be completed and re-occupied in a months’ long remodeling project at the Bartholomew County Courthouse.