Looking Back – May 27

Olivia Morlock, 8, wound her way through a slalom course at a bicycle rodeo in the Cummins COB parking lot in 2010. The free event, sponsored by the Safe Routes to School committee, taught elementary-age children skills for better and safer cycling through a series of stations that included bike handling and various traffic skills. From The Republic archives

2010

A state agency investigated whether the city of Columbus violated state law by shutting off customers’ water service when they failed to pay a portion of their water/sewer/trash bill.

1995

After 46 years of coaching, Columbus North Bull Dogs boys basketball coach Bill Stearman announced he would retire at the end of the 1995-96 season.

1970

Indiana Bell Telephone began offering Touch-Tone phones to replace dial phones in the Columbus area.