Looking Back – January 20

Northside eighth-graders Teresa Riehle, left, and Jennifer Watts, right, and Central Middle School student Trisha Huffman, seated, were chosen, along with Anne Casperson, to participate in the Circle the State with Song choral group in 1995. From The Republic archives

Around Columbus

Jan. 20

2010

About 200 Bartholomew County businesses, including restaurants, small auto dealerships, clothing stores, gift shops and hair salons, were listed on a state website because they had not paid sales tax bills.

1995

Fire on a conveyor belt sent flames and smoke shooting into the sky at the main plant of the David R. Webb Co. in Edinburgh.

1970

Four members of a Columbus family were found dead at their Ninth Street home, the apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning from a space heater.