Looking Back – November 13

Kyle Graham and Ashley Cummings, foreground from left, were among hundreds of people who enjoyed musical fireworks choreographed to Christmas music in front of The Commons in 1994. From The Republic archives

2009

Bartholomew County Highway Department was named “Best Overall Agency” for the third time in 10 years at the 2009 Indiana Snow Plow Roadeo, an annual event that pitted road workers statewide against one another in snow-removal competitions.

1994

The fourth annual Christmas Musical Fireworks kicked off the holiday season.

1969

Indiana State Police troopers set up roadblocks on U.S. 31 at Interstate 65 north of Taylorsville in an effort to locate a gunman who got away with the largest haul in Indiana history, $144,981, when he robbed an Indianapolis branch bank.