Looking Back – July 7

2011

Seventeenth Street was closed for four months from Gladstone Avenue to McClure Road as crews began work on the next phase of a year-long project to widen the street to four lanes with sidewalks and bicycle lanes.

1996

Columbus City Council gave final approval to rezoning for a 206-acre parcel targeted for a 615-lot subdivision east of Poshard Drive and west of Marr Road near Columbus Municipal Airport.

1971

American and Indiana flags were raised during a “topping-out” ceremony at the site of the new Columbus East High School, which was 37% complete.