Looking Back – August 6

Eight teams of walkers garnered about $20,000 in pledges during the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at Northside Middle School track in 1995. Ninety participants took turns walking the circular track for 24 hours while three dozen sponsors supplied everything from lighting and electricity to entertainment and food. From The Republic archives

2010

Consolidating into a single campus allowed Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. to shuffle teachers’ schedules and reinstitute elementary art and music classes for the upcoming school year.

1995

A public input meeting was held to discuss the open campus policy at Columbus North and East high schools and the possibility of closing campuses during lunch periods.

1970

A new, 11,000-square-foot home of Noblitt Fabricating was under construction on U.S. 31, with completion due in September, and another family owned business, Boyer Machine, announced it would erect a new 10,000-square-foot plant on South Gladstone Avenue.