Around Columbus
May 3
2011
Officials predicted a 25% turnout in the primary election while absentee voting jumped to about three times as many ballots as in the previous two primaries.
1996
Representatives of ABC-Stewart School expressed its intention to buy the old Kent Elementary School building where ABC classes had been held since 1983.
1971
Two landmarks, the old Schwartzkopf Opera House on Jackson Street and a two-story frame house on Lindsey Street, which earlier was thought to be the first county courthouse, were razed to make room for new developments.
