2010
Ninety-seven, five-member teams lost a combined 1,533 pounds in the three-month-long Bartholomew County On the Move lifestyle challenge.
1995
Several thousand hogs were killed in an intense wind-driven fire that leveled most of a three-building complex at Hope.
1970
Columbus Postmaster Elmer Tekulve asked Bartholomew County Commissioners to consider development of a plan for a countywide project of placing house numbers on all homes in rural areas to make mail delivery service more efficient and also aid rural fire departments and local law authorities.