Looking Back – Dec. 22

From left, Emma Wilson, public address announcer Tim Vrana, Brice McDaniel and Collin Lollar discuss the timeline for the half-time shooting contest at a girls basketball game between between North and Seymour on Dec. 15, 2015.

2015

The Columbus Department of Public works exceeded its goal of 40% of city sanitation customers signing up for curbside recycling. A total of 51% of customers had signed up for the bi-weekly recycling pickup less than a year into the Columbus Recycles initiative.

2000

Winter officially began two weeks after its unofficial arrival with a cold front plunging temperatures to as low as nine degrees.

1975

Bartholomew County Rural Youth members Susan Finke and Mark Bolander were crowned Queen and King of the Shelby County Rural Youth Christmas Dance.