Looking Back – August 28

Tiberius, a cardigan Welsh corgi, owned by Marilyn Thorson, was one of more than 1,000 dogs that participated in the annual all-breed dog show and obedience trials sponsored by Kennel Club of Columbus in 1994. Tiberius went on to win Best of Breed. From The Republic archives

2009

Construction started on a new Wendy’s restaurant at the corner of Jonathan Moore Pike and Morgan Willow Trace in front of the westside Walmart.

1994

Fifty-eight new teachers and five new administrators were set to begin work with Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp., the highest number of new hirings within the school system since the late 1960s.

1969

More than 100 people critical of a site along County Road 325W under consideration for a city-county refuse disposal facility met to organize a protest.