Looking Back – May 8

2011

Hundreds of Columbus East and North students packed the first prom held at the new Commons

1996

Luke Davidson, a fourth-grader at St. Bartholomew Catholic School, and Kyle Smith, a third-grader at Smith Elementary School, chased down a blue balloon with a note attached that had been carried by the wind more than 200 miles in one day from a Grandparents Day event at Coal City Grade School.

1971

Columbus Fire Department and Bartholomew County Hospital staged a successful first-ever “rescue and evacuation” exercise using the fire department’s snorkel unit.