Looking Back – March 16

St. Peter's Lutheran School second-graders Kyle Peters and Marilyn Bulthuis showed off their artwork as they and hundreds of area children celebrated National Lutheran Schools Week in 1995. From The Republic archives

2010

A $5 million insurance settlement allowed United Way of Bartholomew County to move forward with a plan to rebuild its damaged center after a Christmas Eve fire.

1995

Columbus’ Steve Welmer was among the select few college officials invited to referee at the NCAA basketball tournament opening rounds in Boise, Idaho.

1970

Officials at Columbus High School filed a letter of protest with the Indiana High School Athletic Association in the wake of numerous beating and brick-throwing incidents outside Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus after the final game of the Indianapolis semi-state basketball tournament.