Looking Back – March 30

2009

Columbus government officials applied for $1.88 million in stimulus money to buy foreclosed and flood-abandoned houses in Northbrook Addition.

1994

Rene Campbell was named director of Visitors Center Inc., replacing the retiring Marty David.

1969

The Irwin, Miller and Sweeney families sold their 45 percent interest in Purity Stores Inc., a grocery chain in the San Francisco Bay area founded in the 1920s.