Looking Back – March 16

2011

The local labor market improved significantly compared to a year earlier, with about 900 fewer people reported jobless and about 650 more jobs.

1996

The special education class and a team of students studying the Olympics at Northside Middle School sold more than 200 green carnations to benefit Special Olympics.

1971

Mary Ellen Crump Abel became the first woman ever to file for the Columbus mayoral nomination.