Looking Back – November 24

Students in Barb Pruitt's kindergarten class spent two weeks in 1994 learning about Thanksgiving, from the Pilgrims' voyage on the Mayflower to making cornbread, which they "feasted" on at the end of the lessons. From The Republic archives

2009

Samantha McAllister, Lyndsay Bare, Tayler Seymour, Briana Hale, Abigail Wilson, Sarah Loesch, Erin Mack and Hope Spalding, members of the St. Peter’s Lutheran School spell team, were finalists in the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl State Finals.

1994

Athens Ambulance, owned and operated by Columbus Regional Hospital, changed its name to Columbus Regional Hospital Ambulance Service.

1969

The Log yearbook at Columbus High School was one of nine first-place winners in the 35th annual Columbia Scholastic Press Association contest.