Around Columbus
April 18
2011
Jonesville residents were worried that the U.S. Postal Service would close their 100-year-old post office in favor of rural mail deliver due to budget cuts.
1996
Columbus City Council took steps to mend the affordable housing crisis in the city by approving the rezoning of 206 acres east of Poshard Drive and west of the Marr Road and Road 300N intersection to allow for a 615-lot subdivision.
1971
Thirty trucks and 90 volunteers, including Job Corps trainees from Camp Atterbury, members of Morning and Noon Exchange clubs and local Girl Scouts, began the third annual Operation Big Broom clean-up effort of carting away worn out appliances and materials not normally picked up by city garbage trucks.
