25 Years Ago This Week

The Bethany Village Board backed an amendment to the ordinance banning the discharge of firearms in the village. The amended ordinance will specify that American Legion members may discharge firearms in the village for ceremonial purposes. Mayor Don Gibbons said the exception needs to be spelled out because someone had complained about the sound of gunfire during a Legion funeral service.

Lefty and Wilma Hollonbeck of rural Sullivan have always been proud of their grandson, but they probably never dreamed that bigger-than-life likenesses of this talented athlete would be appearing on more than 100 billboards around Atlanta, Ga. during the Olympic games. Scot Hollonbeck also was one of the final six bearers as the torch made its final leg of the journey to the Olympic stadium for the opening ceremonies of the 1996 summer Olympics.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.