Looking Back – March 20

Kite enthusiasts Michael Lacefield, 14, and his sister, Pamela Lacefield 11, children of Lena Lacefield of Union Street, took advantage of strong March breezes at Donner Park in 1970. From The Republic archives

2010

Thirty firefighters were required to douse a blaze that destroyed a 50-year-old Hope barn after embers from a tree fire set the structure on fire.

1995

Spring arrived at 9:16 p.m. with thunderstorms that dropped temperatures more than 20 degrees.

1970

Popular Republicans, Bartholomew County Sheriff Charles Nolting and County Treasurer Virgil Scheidt, announced they would run against each other in the May primary for the nomination for county clerk.