11 years ago

February 1999

•An 18-year-old student at Red Boiling Springs High School allegedly assaulted substitute teacher E.B. Krantz. The student was charged with assault and battery.

•StraubelStone Lightweight Garden Accessories, Inc. was to begin manufacturing soon in the Timberline building in Lafayette’s Industrial Park.

•Hunter Shrum was crowned 1999 Little Miss Macon County at the 35th annual pageant hosted by the Future Homemakers of America.

•The Macon County High School boys’ basketball team finished third in the District 9-AA tournament, with players John Conroy and Nathan Gregory named to the all-tournament team.

•Born to parents Cari and Eric Pedigo of Lafayette, a son named Nathan Forrest.

•The Epsilon Chi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi announced Sabrina Whitaker as their Sweetheart for 1999.

•The county had two new head high school football coaches – Pat Dyer at Macon County and Tim Cadle at Red Boiling Springs.

•The Macon County High School cheerleading squad competed in the UCA National Cheerleading Championships in Orlando.

•Ruby Blankenship was crowned Queen of Hearts and Olie Meador was crowned King of Hearts at Knollwood Manor. Voting in the event raised $235 for the American Heart Association.

•A new postal route, Rural Route 7, was to go into effect on Saturday, Feb. 27. The new route was created from addresses on five of the existing six rural routes, according to Lafayette Postmaster Larry Jones.

•Cub Scout Troop 402 of Lafayette had recently been awarded a $500 grant from American Greetings’ Voluntary Involvement Program (VIP). Den leaders Jacquelie Pedigo and Regina Roark, both employed at American Greetings, said the grant would be used to purchase uniforms and finance camping trips for boys who couldn’t afford them, supplies for the troop and transportation.

•William B. Birdwell, a longtime Macon County teacher, principal and contractor, died Feb. 10 following a lengthy illness.

•Born to parents Ronnie and Angie Morgan of Red Boiling Springs, a son named James Owen.

22 years ago

February 1988

•Doyle Gaines told the Times he would not be a candidate for Superintendent of Macon County Schools in the upcoming Republican Primary election.

•The Macon County Grand Jury inspected the Courthouse and found that “the restrooms are a disgrace to the County and need to be completely remodeled.”

•The home of Cathy Carver, Lafayette Route 3, was heavily damaged by fire.

•Margaret Williams was president of the Red Boiling Springs Extension Homemakers, which held a monthly meeting at Citizens Bank with 10 members present.

•Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Haley celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary Feb. 22. They were married in 1913 in Lafayette by M.B. Freeman. The couple was the parents of nine children, seven still living, 14 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.

•Morning radio news commentator Paul Harvey told a nationwide audience that Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Haley had celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. Harvey picked the item up from the previous week’s edition of the Times.

•Trustee Donnie Morgan was pictured in the Times accepting a property tax check for $143,822 from Tom Rowland, manager of North Central Telephone Cooperative. NCTC had become the county’s largest taxpayer.

•“Be sure to tell Charlie Gregory to put our picture in the Macon County Times,” advised Sen. Al Gore Jr. after he posed for a picture with Jennifer Wilson, a former Macon Countian and a volunteer in Gore’s Austin, Texas campaign headquarters.

•The Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council announced the appointment of Sammie N. Peterson as the 1988 Macon County Girl Scout Fund Drive Chairman.

•Movies playing at the Lafayette Cinema were “Flowers in the Attic” and “Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.”

•Wesley Lamb, an elderly Lafayette man, reported he’d been robbed at knifepoint by a mask-wearing individual who knocked on the door of his Dycus Lane home between 8 and 9 p.m. and stole two wallets containing a total of $400 to $500.

27 years ago

February 1983

•The Macon County Ambulance Service moved its office to the Courthouse from Macon County General Hospital, where the office had been located since the beginning of the service in 1972.

•Twenty-one young Macon Countians were tested at Lafayette City Hall for membership into the Tennessee Army National Guard, according to SFC James Kinkade.

•The home of Ricky and Sybil Joines, located in the Coleytown community, burned to the ground.

•Members of the Lafayette congregation of the First Assembly of God Church gathered at their 4.1-acre site on Williams Road to break ground for a new church.

•State Rep. Martin Sir (D-Lewisburg) was pictured in the Times speaking with Inez Hudson, Helen Watson and Hilda Donoho at Macon County Department Store.

•The skeleton of a body unearthed between Enon and Corinth Church was identified as definitely being that of an American Indian by University of Tennessee anthropologist Dr. William Bass.

•The Central girls’ basketball team finished second in the state Class AA tournament. Coaches were Bobby Bransford and Mickey Walrond.

•Forty-five Boy Scouts from Macon, Wilson and DeKalb counties held a campout on Christine Harris’ farm in Lafayette. All the troops were from the Walton Trail District.

•The Board of Directors for North Central Telephone Cooperative met for their regular monthly meeting and elected Royce Halliburton to be director representing the Defeated and Pleasant Shade exchanges.

•Sorority XI Gamma Pi, chapter of Beta Sigma Pi, met at the home of Pat Woodcock. President Barbara Keisling called the meeting to order.

•The Red Boiling Springs School cafeteria staff included Manager Brenda Dennis, Vassie Fleming, Opal Thomas, Oneal Green, Kathrine Butler and Esto Whitley.