Looking Back, Oct. 9, 2023

Elementary-age students enjoyed a ride on a lift truck during the Touch-A-Truck event held at Clifty Park in 2013.

Oct. 9

2013

Former two-term Bartholomew County Sheriff Kenny Whipker was chosen to fill an at-large seat on Columbus City Council vacated by Aaron Hankins who took a position out of town.

1998

Mount Healthy Elementary School fourth-graders found, tagged and released more than two dozen Monarch butterflies when they participated in a University of Kansas project studying the migration of Monarchs.

1973

Columbus Sertoma Club donated wood-burning heating stoves to Columbus Youth Camp so that cabins could be used for winter activities.