Looking Back – May 23

2011

For the fourth year in a row, Parkside Elementary School was named the state’s top elementary winner of the Healthy Hoosier School Award.

1996

Local organizers and torchbearers finalized plans for the Bartholomew County leg of the Olympic torch’s 15,000-mile journey across the country to the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

1971

As Bartholomew County and Columbus celebrated their 150th year, Old Union United Church of Christ northeast of Taylorsville marked the 155th anniversary of its founding.