Looking Back – May 31

2011

First Financial Bank officials participated in a ground-breaking ceremony for a 21,000-square-foot banking center and office complex to be built at the corner of Third and Brown streets.

1996

Dion Stenneski purchased the 90-year-old Hope Star- Journal newspaper from Charles T. Biggs who had owned the publication since 1983.

1971

Columbus Jaycees towed eight abandoned automobiles cluttering up the city to the Kroot Corp. junkyard in a project they dubbed “Operation Towaway.”