Around Columbus
May 18
2011
Flat Rock-Hawcreek School board eliminated 14 teaching assistants’ positions despite pleas of staff and parents to make the cuts from any other area of the budget.
1996
County surveillance teams applied a powder designed to kill swimming mosquito larvae surfacing for air in an attempt to control a plaque of the blood-sucking insects predicted after a spring of heavy rain and floods.
1971
A 16-foot-tall sign greeted motorists entering the city from the Third Street bridge with information about the downtown redevelopment project and the changes to one-way traffic on Brown and Lindsey streets.
