Pictured are the presenters: Marcy Hosty, Mary Jo Anderson, Bri Hosty, Grace Deninger, Barb Peterson, Cecelia Whitaker. Submitted photo.

From the July 22, 2008 edition of the Lincoln County Journal:

60 Years Ago – July 25, 1958Sheriff Melvin Starkey is in Lincoln County Memorial Hospital for treatment of injuries in suffered in an automobile accident  at the junction of Highway 47 and Mill Street. The sheriff is being treated for a concussion, possible fractured skull  and bruises. His …

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These items are a small part of the more than $900 million of Unclaimed Property protected by Treasurer Schmitt. One in ten Missourians have Unclaimed Property and the average return is around $300.Submitted photo.

Troy Aquatic Center, supported by voters through the passage of a capital improvement tax, will officially be unveiled to the community May 26 at an eight-hour open house. The center is located nextto Troy City Hall on Cap-au-Gris. Parking lots have been asphalted, sod laid and of course, wa…

We are revisiting our past issues to share some of the top news stories from our archives since 2005. Each week, we will spotlight stories that impacted the community in powerful ways. We hope readers of all ages will enjoy this feature.The Lincoln County Journal archives allow you access to…

In this undated file photo, New York Yankees’ Babe Ruth hits a home-run. As part of its collection of Babe Ruth items, the Baseball Hall of Fame says it has the bat the slugger used to hit his then-record 60th home run in 1927. (AP Photo/File)

We are revisiting our past issues to share some of the top news stories from our archives since 2005. Each week, we will spotlight stories that impacted the community in powerful ways. We hope readers of all ages will enjoy this feature.The Lincoln County Journal archives allow you access to…

A Union corporal explains the steps in loading and firing a Civil War rifle-musket.

Frank Fazekas Jr., right, poses for a photograph with a portrait of his father, Lt. Frank Fazekas, at his home in New Hartford, N.Y., on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. Fazekas never knew his father. He was just 6 months old at the time of the crash of the pilot’s fighter plane during World War II,…

Monte Cottle, Lincoln County 911 Mapping and Addressing director, retired his position effective March 31. Hehas been with the 911 program since its inception. Bob Simmons photo.

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This Feb. 14, 1942 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives shows the five Sullivan brothers on board USS Juneau (CL-52) at the time of her commissioning ceremonies at the New York Navy Yard. The brothers who were all killed in the World War II sinking of the USS Juneau on Nov. 13, 1942.…

We are revisiting our past issues to share some of the top news stories from our archives since 2005. Each week, we will spotlight stories that impacted the community in powerful ways. We hope readers of all ages will enjoy this feature.The Lincoln County Journal archives allow you access to…

Governor William Buckingham, Civil War governor of Connecticut.

Three area businesses became the first “Cornerstone Partners” in the 2008 Capital Campaign for the Troy AreaChamber of Commerce. They include (from left): Floyd Dowell, CEO and Ashley Cobb, marketing director, LincolnCounty Medical Center; Pat Flynn, co-chair of the campaign; Cheri Wincheste…

In a June 26, 1928 file photo, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses with flowers as she arrives in Southampton, England, after her transatlantic flight on the “Friendship” from Burry Point, Wales. Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains from fa…

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Mary Randolph Custis Lee

In this Feb. 14, 2018 photo, a lock of George Washington’s hair discovered in an old book at Union College’s archives lay on a folded piece of paper at the college’s Schenectady, N.Y. campus. John Myers, the college’s catalog and metadata librarian, discovered the hair strands in a yellowed …

This April 1968 file photo shows the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guiding a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, April 1968. Two soldiers in the photo, Dallas Brown, bottom, and Tim Wintenburg…

This image taken from video on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, shows wall paintings inside a 4,400-year-old tomb near the pyramids outside Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced the discovery Saturday and said the tomb likely belonged to a high-ranking official known as Hetpet during t…

Members of the Joint Tactical Environment (JTE) study team included (from left): Major David Stress (U.S. Air Force); Brigadier General Anthony Crutchfield, Commanding General Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Army; Col. Allan Kimball, JCOA, JTE, team leader; General David Petraus,…

This aerial photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, in Mobile County, Ala., shows the remains of a ship that could be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to the United States. The Clotilda was burned after docking in Mobile, Ala., in 1860, long after th…

Pictured above: The Early Childhood Education Center on opening day, Jan. 3, 2013.

Greer Stadium field technicians Chandler Burchfield, left, and Cristina Oliveira use ground penetrating radar at a former minor league baseball park, in Nashville, Tenn. Developers Cloud Hill Partnership said Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, that the site is no longer viable for a commercial and resid…

This undated photo made available by the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources shows a piece of paper from books found on board Blackbeard’s ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge. To find paper in the 300-year-old shipwreck in warm waters is “almost unheard of,” said Erik Farrell, a conserv…

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 photo, Charles Swift, managing director and curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, stands in front of a case in Annapolis, Md., where the flags shown behind him had been tucked away from view behind another flag on display for nearly 100 years. The flags wer…

Judge Dan Dildine (right) is presented with a resolution from the House of Representatives recognizing his retirement as the circuit judge for the 45th Judicial Circuit. Presenting it was Wayne Henke, former representative, on behalf of Rep. Ed Schieffer.

In this Dec. 8, 2017 photo, World War II veteran Wilfred “Spike” Mailloux looks through a series of sketches of U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division soldiers while visiting the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. They were done in Hawaii by Stan …

Members of the Lincoln County Community Safety Task Force judge the Boone Elementary poster contest.

FILE – In this Sept. 4, 2015, file photo, the USS LST-325, a tank landing ship used by the U.S. Navy in the 1940s during World War II that has been restored and maintained by volunteers since it was decommissioned by the Hellenic Navy of Greece in 1999, sits docked near the Carnegie Science …

We are revisiting our past issues to share some of the top news stories from our archives since 2005. Each week, we will spotlight stories that impacted the community in powerful ways. We hope readers of all ages will enjoy this feature.