Looking Back – May 26

Steve and Kathy Humphries manned a microphone and video camera in front of City Hall for passers-by to leave Memorial Day audio and video clips for troops in 2010. From The Republic archives

2010

Forty-one “race cars” zoomed around a quarter-mile track at Northside Middle School’s track for the 11th annual St. Bartholomew Catholic School Kindy 500.

1995

Actor Gregory Peck, en route to a theater appearance in Louisville, and his wife, Veronique, stopped in Columbus to visit Zaharako’s Confectionery, which, regrettably, was closed.

1970

Bartholomew County Commissioners and local business groups discussed the preservation of the old Lincoln School at Second and Franklin streets as a local historical site and what steps should be taken to maintain and prevent deterioration of the 93-year-old building.