2008
About 2,000 customers were without power for an hour overnight in Bartholomew County after an electrical pole caught fire at 11th Street and Indianapolis Road due to a failed insulator.
1993
Although still short of its $40,000 goal, after-Christmas donations to the Cheer Fund pushed the total to $34,543.
1968
Bartholomew County Treasurer-elect Josephine Hunter of Hope died at Bartholomew County Hospital and acting Treasurer Virgil Scheidt was to remain in office for another year while a second election took place.
