Looking Back – October 6

2008

Bartholomew County’s unemployment rate jumped from 4.8 to 5.3 percent over the summer but remained below the state and national averages.

1993

Ryan Turner, 5, of Williamsburg Apartments, stepped into a dry well filled with storm water up to his shoulders but was rescued uninjured by neighborhood adults before emergency personnel arrived.

1968

The congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church on State Road 9 celebrated the church’s 100th anniversary.