Looking Back – February 9

Boy Scout and Columbus North High School student Logan Gill spent the morning with Columbus Police Department patrol officer Ryan Floyd as part of Boy Scouts in Government Day in 2010. From The Republic archives

2010

Paris-based Faurecia bought EMCON Technologies, an auto parts maker with operations in Columbus.

1995

”Suave Bandidos,” a corporation set up by the senior economics class at Hauser High School that designed and sold black and white bandannas, won first place in an annual statewide Junior Achievement competition.

1970

A plan aimed at banning all-day parking by industrial employees on streets near factories in the mid-section of Columbus enabled property owners to issue citations themselves rather than use active police enforcement.