Looking Back – June 26

Tricia Lambert, left, and Connie Maple, members of an Adopt-a-Highway group, picked up trash along State Road 9 on a sunny day in 1994.

2009

After an initial dispute with the city, a Columbus pastor vacated property at 17th Street and Marr Road where he had run a church, The Upper Room Full Gospel Tabernacle, for 31 years, while paying the city $150 a month in rent.

1994

Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department purchased devices called Stop Sticks to safely disable and stop vehicles fleeing from law enforcement.

1969

Six cars of a Baltimore and Ohio train derailed in the Seymour business district.