Looking Back – May 13

2009

Bartholomew County Council members voted against a wheel tax/surtax to maintain roads, saying too many people were out of work and could not afford another tax.

1994

Columbus Parks and Recreation Board agreed to sublease a new building at Columbus Municipal Airport for storage of the city’s maintenance equipment and Festival of Lights displays.

1969

Bartholomew Consolidated School Board voted 4 to 3 to extend a controversial “non-grading” system of pupil evaluation to a seventh school on a year-to-year basis.