Columnists

Headlines then were just like now, it seems

In 1966, 50 years ago, the front pages of The Brewton Standard had some good news. but it ...

Columnists

Election time is right around the corner

Twenty years ago, in 1996, Jefferson Davis Community College was looking for a new president. It was announced ...

Columnists

Citizens made news

Thirty years ago in 1985, Stephanie Walker was selected to be the Citizen of the Year by the ...

Columnists

Progress then, “Progress” now

In 1981, work on the T.R. Miller High School gym was almost completed. The renovation began in 1979 ...

Columnists

Things went boom

Forty years ago, in 1976, there was still much talk around town about the explosion that occurred downtown. ...

Lydia Grimes

New phones and all

Fifty years ago in 1966, things were certainly different than they are today. Work was going on at ...

Columnists

Things were slower

Thirty five years ago in 1981, there didn’t seem to be much going on in the area. There ...

Lydia Grimes

Cracking down then too

During the early days of February in 2001, the 21st Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force was working really ...

Columnists

Is that a monkey?

In 1996, 20 years ago, former Escambia County commissioner Julian Henley died in a house fire in Wing. ...

Columnists

Coach Riggs was making news way back then, too

Looking back in the old issues of The Brewton Standard are always entertaining. In 1986, 30 years ago, ...

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