Looking Back – March 21

Amanda O'Dell, left, and her mother, Cecilia O'Dell, practiced using a choke hold to break an attacker's grip during a self-defense course for women held by Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department in 1995. From The Republic archives

2010

All 14 storm sirens in Columbus blared on cue twice but the only county siren outside city limits, mounted atop the water town in Hope, failed to pass the statewide test.

1995

Barbara Stewart was named winner of Columbus Human Rights Commission’s Dr. William R. Laws Human Rights Award.

1970

”Right Turn On Red” signs were posted at four Columbus intersections: One at Seventh Street and Hawcreek Boulevard, two at 10th Street and Gladstone Avenue and one at 17th Street and McClure Road.