Looking Back – April 27

Columbus High School students, Terry Fogle, Jack Diel, Dale VonFange, Dick O'Neal and Dan Fleming, wearing face masks to draw attention to air pollution, unloaded some 25,000 beverage cans, just one truckload of many collected by students to emphasize the amount of litter in the community in 1970.  From The Republic archives

2010

A Nineveh man was hit by a southbound train and suffered minor injuries when he stopped his car on railroad tracks on County Road 400N to wait for passing traffic to clear.

1995

The Edinburgh/Bartholomew/Columbus Joint District Plan Commission approved development plans for a 10,255-square-foot Cracker Barrel restaurant and a 3,080-square-foot Thornton Oil gas station and convenience store near Horizon Outlet Center.

1970

Columbus High School sophomores, juniors and seniors picked up a total of 148,711 empty aluminum and stainless steel beverage containers during a “can-in” staged to dramatize the severity of worldwide pollution.