Looking Back – September 25

Voter registration deputy Norma Trimpe, right, explained voter registration procedures to, from left, Mrs. Richard Allison, Mrs. E.D. Mann, holding son, David, Mrs. James Liebig and Mrs. Terry Marbach, who were among 280 League of Women Voters volunteers who were sworn in to register voters at the JayC and Standard food stores in Columbus and outside the county courthouse in 1970. From The Republic archives

2010

Hauser High School Band was among several Indiana high school bands that performed during the halftime show of the Purdue versus Ball State football game at Ross-Ade Stadium, part of “All-American Band Day.”

1995

An estimated 50,000 people crowded into Hope for the final day of the 28th annual Hope Heritage Days festival.

1970

Bartholomew County Plan Commission approved the rezoning of 28 acres of land on the west side of U.S. 31 at County Road 600N to roadside commercial use and continued a request for conditional use of 48 acres as a mobile home park on land on Tannehill Road west of I-65.