25 Years Ago This Week

Gabi Stiele and her children Rudolf and Caroline of Bregenz, Austria visited with Bill and Barb Graven of Sullivan. Gabi was retracing steps she took almost two decades ago as an American Field Service foreign exchange student.
The musical Damn Yankees was the final show of the Little Theatre’s 1995 season. The musical was written by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop on the basis of the best selling novel, “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant” by Wallop. Melanie Mays and Jack Milo starred as Lola and Applegate in the production. Supporting cast members were Todd Lawson as Young Joe Hardy, Janet Bond as Meg Boyd, Michael Haws as Old Joe Boyd, Delana Hubscher as Reporter Gloria Thorpe and Charles Bell as Senators’ Coach Van Buren.
Electrical problems which resulted in power outages in Sullivan were corrected. The problems started when the number two circuit went down during a storm. At that time electric commissioner Jon England thought it to be a weather related problem, however the city lost three circuits in clear conditions causing a power outage in two thirds of the city. The crew at the electric department realized it was a problem at the substation at the plant. The city had lost voltage in a control wire and the city’s consulting electrical engineer was contacted in St. Louis.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.