Looking Back – April 7

2011

The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved the design and agreed to pay for a $6.6 million flood wall to be installed around Columbus Regional Hospital in 2012.

1996

Bartholomew Consolidated School Board discussed cutting local funding for secondary summer school by more than $150,000 to help compensate for a $2 million budget shortfall.

1971

The local American Legion Post sent a petition to President Nixon with more than 6,000 local signatures of people protesting the conviction of Lt. William Calley Jr.