Looking Back – October 2

Columbus East senior Kreigha Henney (9) and Columbus North senior Andrea Behling (13) battled at the net during the first game of a match in 2009. East won the match, 25-10, 25-21 and 26-24. From The Republic archives

2009

Columbus’ construction market outpaced all others in the U.S. during the previous year and was named by a national contractors’ organization as having the country’s largest increase in employment, likely due to work related to the flood of June 2008.

1994

Arson was suspected in an afternoon blaze that prompted fighting among students at the Atterbury Job Corps Center.

1969

With the monumental task of moving complete, full library service was set to resume at the new Cleo Rogers Memorial Library.