Looking Back – October 19

Red Velvet sweet potatoes grown at the family garden plot in 1969 were almost bigger than Matthew and Aaron McCord, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Larry McCord of Sixth Street. From The Republic archives

2009

Lynn Bigley was named The Republic’s 2009 Woman of the Year.

1994

Over boisterous objections from residents of a neighboring subdivision, Columbus City Council preliminarily approved the rezoning needed to pave the way for the new 116-acre McCullough’s Run at the State Road 46 and Talley Road intersection.

1969

Plats of a 30-lot subdivision east of Columbus, Clifty Farms, was approved by the county plan commission.