Looking Back – August 25

From left, Marsy Roark, Samantha Parks and Alexandra Parks huddled under a lawn sprinkler in their neighborhood to escape the heat in 1995. From The Republic archives

2010

Bartholomew County’s School Supply Assistance Project had provided free school supplies to 2,135 students so far in the school year with registration still coming in.

1995

County commissioners announced their intention to move the county probation department into the Elks Lodge building on Third Street, a building the county purchased for $250,000.

1970

Telephones in the police and sheriff’s departments, as well as offices in the county courthouse, were knocked out for several hours when a bulldozer broke an underground cable casing in the proposed “super block” area between Jackson and Washington streets north of the courthouse.