Looking Back – December 31

Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Young of Cambridge Court measured how much their son, Timothy Ross Young, the first baby born in Bartholomew County in 1969, had grown in 12 months. From The Republic archives

2009

The multi-million-dollar failure of Irwin Union Bank was considered to be the top news story of 2009.

1994

Five longtime Republican office holders, Juanita Harden, Norma Carson, Bernice Krieg, James Wininger and Naomi Jackson, prepared to make way for Democrat winners of the November election.

1969

A two-bed room at Bartholomew County Hospital increased in price from $38 to $43 a day.