Dave Bonnell of Columbus, right, parked his vehicle and sent his son in to the long lines to buy 1-cent stamps at the Columbus Post Office downtown on Jan. 12, 1999.
From The Republic archives
2014
Some areas used as tornado refuges in Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. buildings were identified as unsafe.
1999
The town of Edinburgh hoped to reduce property taxes by attracting nearly 250 upscale homeowners to the new Timbergate Golf Community next to Interstate 65.
1974
Southern Indiana Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit, low-income housing improvement project headquartered in Columbus, was alive and well thanks to fiscal belt-tightening and to some assurance that additional federal funding would begin in February.
