
Bartholomew County Senior Center members Vickie Rutan, Will Comer, Wilma Beam and Jean Lawson, from left, performed in the baseball musical “Inside Pitch,” in 1998.
From The Republic archives
Aug. 22
2013
Cummins Engine Inc. announced its plan to build a new light-duty diesel engine in Columbus, starting with a new global partner, Nissan, which would use the product in its next-generation Titan pickup.
1998
Fifty angled parking spaces were striped on the west side of Maple Street between 25th and 27th streets, eliminating the parallel spaces on the east side of the street and providing no-time-limit parking for Columbus North students.
1973
About 300 people gathered in the Columbus Shopping Center parking lot to watch Columbus East High School’s Marching Olympians practice the routine they planned to perform at the state fair band contest.




