Looking Back

10 years ago: June 11, 1997

Residents completing the Certified Manufacturing Specialist class taught at Augusta Tech included Josephine Roberts, Stephanie Lodge, Aaron Grier, Alfred McBride and Michael Hamilton.

Comcast Communications became the new owner of the local cable company, formerly operated as Scripps Howard.

25 years ago: June 16, 1982

Former governor S. Marvin Griffin died after a year-long battle with lung cancer.

Kevin Childs of Midville, a member of the Augusta Boxing Club, won the 80 pound weight class in a competition in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The Citizens Advisory Committee to Renovate the Courthouse approved tentative plans for the project. The plans were drawn by Brown & Sigg Architects of Augusta.

50 years ago: June 13, 1957

Waynesboro became the second city in Georgia to receive a federal grant for eliminating slums and blighted areas. The $406,063 grant would be used to clean up three city blocks on East Sixth Street near the railroad.

State Highway board member Roy F. Chalker announced that U.S. Highway 25 between Waynesboro and Augusta would be widened and resurfaced and that a number of new bridges would be built.

75 years ago: June 10, 1932

Products advertised included Black Flag insecticide, Black Draught tonic, Riggs Tooth Powder, Castoria, Cardui, NuGrape and Chilean Nitrate fertilizer.