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Looking Back from our Archives

4/30/19 Edition

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10 YEARS AGO — Heavy rains of up to eight inches over three days caused over $40,000 in damages to the county road system as well as significant power outages.
*Tibby Edwards Liles, longtime radio talk show host and news reporter for WHDM, died after a long illness at age 90.
20 YEARS AGO — Area school systems examined security procedures following a school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado that left 15 dead.

*The McKenzie High School Marching Rebels were the Sweepstakes winner at the World’s Biggest Fish Fry Grand Parade.
*State Senator Roy Herron was the commencement speaker for Bethel College.
50 YEARS AGO — Showing at the Park Theatre: Bandolero starring Dean Martin and James Stewart; Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River starring Jerry Lewis;
The Night They Raided Minsky’s starring Jason Robards and Britt Ekland; and Secret Ceremony starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum.