Looking Back – September 15

2008

Remnants of Hurricane Ike blew power out for more than 14,000 Bartholomew County Duke Energy customers throughout the day and thousands more suffered outages in Brown, Decatur, Jackson and Jennings counties.

1993

Area businesses and fair supporters paid about $500 each for the privilege of naming a street or a day at the 1994 county 4-H fair, raising more than $4,000 toward the cost of a new Community Building at the fairgrounds.

1968

Bartholomew County Mental Health Clinic moved from the Engelking Pattern building on Hutchins Avenue to a new building in Doctors’ Park on Central Avenue.