The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns in nine locations this winter. During the summer months, forest-thinning treatments often leave behind branches and other flammable biomass that is then organized into piles. In the winter, when conditions are safest for removal, the piles are burned. This process is critical to maintaining…
Throwback Thursday: Quinn A.M.E. celebration
Members of Quinn A.M.E. Chapel celebrated their mortgage burning on Sept. 26, 1943. Can you tell us more? Share it at info@wnewsj.com. The photo, which was taken by Robert McNemar, is courtesy of the Clinton County Historical Society. Like this image? Reproduction copies of this photo are available by calling the History Center. For more info, visit www.clintoncountyhistory.org; follow them on Facebook @ClintonCountyHistory; or call 937-382-4684.
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MHS cagers ID’d
Members of the 1945-46 Martinsville High School basketball team in a recent throwback photo were, from left: Bill West, Roy Camp, Dave Daulton, Alonzo Nantz, Gaylord Myers, Faymon Roberts, Bill Jones, Red Rinehart, Joe Williams, coach Ray Mills, and Russ Taylor. Thank you to Don Smith for identifying them and also to Janet Stanforth of the Martinsville Alumni for passing along those names to us.