Jonathan Clipp paused to watch a passing airplane then resumed spreading wood chips with his cohorts on the playground at Asbury United Methodist Church in 1998, part of a Children’s Morning Out, non-denominational structured program for children.
From The Republic archives
Oct. 18
2013
It appeared to many motorists that the Taylorsville Dollar General Store was on fire but thick smoke they saw turned out to be rising from a car parked directly in front of the building rather than from inside the store.
1998
Of more than 40 families living near the site of the new landfill, eight people showed up for a 90-minute bus tour to view the progress of construction and get an explanation of how disposal of waste would be handled.
1973
After numerous sightings throughout the southern United States, UFO fever reached Columbus with more then 10 sightings of unidentified lights reportedly seen moving quickly in the skies south and west of Columbus.
