ONE YEAR AGO, NOV. 18, 2021
At Monday’s Putnam County Charter School System Board of Education meeting Monday, School Superintendent Eric Arena received a new three-year contract by a 4-0 vote of the board. Board Chairman Dr. Steve Weiner made the motion to “hire” Arena as superintendent for three years beginning July 1, 2022, with a 10 percent salary increase.
Board member Eugene Smith seconded the motion.
FIVE YEARS AGO, NOV. 16, 2017
Approximately 200 people attended the Veterans Day celebration at the Putnam County Veterans Wall of Honor Park Saturday morning. “This is one of the best Veterans Day ceremonies anywhere in Georgia,” keynote speaker Commander (Ret.)
Thomas Rosseter, of the United States Coast Guard, said, bringing an “amen” from the audience as well as a round of applause.
10 YEARS AGO, NOV. 15, 2012
Sidewalks for the 100 block of North Jefferson Avenue are going to happen – but the process is tedious, the designer for the project said Monday. The city received a $250,000 grant for rebuilding the sidewalks and will contribute another $50,000 as the local match.
25 YEARS AGO, NOV. 20, 1997
This week the local organization of Habitat for Humanity broke ground and started work on its first home in Putnam County. Habitat volunteer George Thompson was out at the work site Monday with about half a dozen other Habitat volunteers, clearing and grading the lot on Whippoorwill Drive, where the first Habitat home is being erected.
50 YEARS AGO, NOV. 16, 1972 75 YEARS AGO, NOV. 20, 1947
“Business houses of Eatonton are to be commended upon their splendid efforts to initiate a Shop-At-Home Christmas Season,” Mayor J.N. Stribling declared this week. “Their work indicates an alertness to community needs that spells progress for our town.” Stribling stated that he will issue a proclamation and urged all citizens to take advantage of the many features being offered by their business people.
100 YEARS AGO, NOV. 17, 1922
At time of going to press Thursday afternoon, a sufficient number of fowls brought in from all parts of the country and delivered at the loading place, the old cotton yard at the Central depot, guaranteed the success of Putnam’s first co-operative poultry sale. At noon, indications were that enough poultry would be loaded before the end of the scheduled time to more than half fill the car, which, according to the previous arrangement, will go on to Madison, where the remaining space in the car is to be filled with fowls collected at that point.