2011
Hundreds of people flocked to downtown Columbus to listen to musical performances, taste traditional Japanese food and browse through yard sale items, all to raise money for areas of Japan devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in March.
1996
Columbus City Council approved spending $350,000 on massive street improvements using the “nest egg” of tobacco taxes city officials had been saving for four or five years.
1971
Plans were announced for the opening of a second location of Columbus Hardware and Supply Store at 426 Washington St., in one of the buildings formerly occupied by White House Department Store.
