Looking Back

10 years ago: Feb. 11, 1998

Burke County's two STAR students were Sudie Griffin of Burke County High School and Nancy Johnson of Edmund Burke Academy.

BCHS football stars Lannis Baxley and Michael Youngblood signed letters of intent to play in college. Baxley signed with the University of Alabama and Youngblood with Georgia Southern.

Heavy rainfall was causing sewage overflows into McIntosh Creek, and the City of Waynesboro was in danger of being fined by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.

25 years ago: Feb. 9, 1983

Dr. Shelley Griffin, Chris Collins, Henry Hopkins III and Roy F. Chalker Jr. were elected to the board of directors of the First National Bank.

Southern Bell announced that, for the first time, customers would be able to buy their own telephones. Previously, phones were available only under a lease program.

50 years ago: Feb. 13, 1958

The True Citizen installed a new Cox-O-Type printing press that printed up to 3,500 newspapers per hour from a roll of paper "nine miles long."

W. A. "Buck" Brannen, basketball coach and member of the faculty at Midville High School, was named Burke County's "Teacher of the Year."

75 years ago: Feb. 10, 1933

Burke County School Superintendent Frank S. Palmer urged local taxpayers to pay "at least part" of their school taxes so the system could continue to operate "under these very adverse conditions." He added that school employees had accepted reduced salaries for the rest of the year.

Tests by the Georgia Department of Health cleared up suspicions of a possible case of leprosy near Midville. Lab results showed no leprosy germs.