Looking Back – August 17

Kinder Corner students frolicked in a sea of colorful balls included in playground equipment donated to the daycare facility by Horizon Outlet Center in 1994, after incidents involving children being left unattended at the mall were reported. From The Republic archives

2009

A bus route between Columbus and Indianapolis, abandoned years before as unprofitable, was one of five routes to be revived under a $2 million federal grant that subsidized the routes’ operations.

1994

Less than two weeks from the start of school, vandals spray painted graffiti on two walls on the south side of Central Middle School

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1969

Packed in boxes, volumes of Atlantic Monthly magazine were the first of about 75,000 periodicals moved down a huge conveyor belt from a second-floor window at the old public library building to the front door of the new Cleo Rogers Memorial Library building located next door.