Looking Back – April 30

2009

Danny Fisher of Columbus won the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon in Louisville in a time of 2 hours, 41 minutes, 32 seconds.

1994

A Columbus contingent spent the day trying to convince a transportation subcommittee in Washington, D.C., to allocate $16.6 million needed to complete the $53 million Columbus Front Door Project.

1969

A federal research grant of $99,141 was approved in Washington, D.C., for partial financing of an experimental sewage treatment system at Grandview Lake.