Around Columbus
March 12
2011
Columbus’ sister city, Miyoshi, Japan, escaped serious damage or casualties when the most powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan’s recorded history slammed into the country’s eastern coast.
1996
Fodrea Community School received unanimous approval from Bartholomew Consolidated School Board to become the second elementary school in the city to use a year-round calendar.
1971
Dunlap Mechanical used a helicopter and a 65-ton, 100-foot boom crane to lift bulky refrigeration units into place at the Ayr-Way store under construction on National Road and to raise a 10,000-pound generator onto the third floor of the Indiana Bell Telephone building on Franklin Street.
