Cummins engineers Matt Smith, left, and David King designed and built a devise based on “The Price is Right” game show to collect pennies tossed into the water at the base of Chaos at The Commons during the United Way fund drive in 1998.
From The Republic archives
Oct. 24
2013
Facing financial problems too great to overcome, the board of the five-year-old International School of Columbus voted to close the school.
1998
A 15-year-old boy had to be rescued when a tunnel he attempted to dig through a 12-foot-high-pile of mulch at Smith School collapsed and trapped him.
1973
Four more retail businesses joined Sears as Courthouse Center opened to “oohs and ahs” while construction workers continued to hammer and paint to complete the building in time for an early 1974 opening of The Commons and the remainder of the shopping center.
