25 years ago
Nov. 3, 1983
      Employment steady in Bath; Highland down Staunton — Preliminary data for the month of September put the rate of unemployment in Highland County at 13.7 percent, a 1.9 percent increase over the August figure of 11.8. Bath County's rate of unemployment remained the same, staying at 3.2 percent.
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50 years ago
Oct. 30, 1958
      Trimble House swept by flames yesterday at noon A small army of firemen and volunteer furniture movers converged on the home of Mrs. Minnie Trimble yesterday (Wednesday) to save many of the elderly lady's belongings from a fire which broke out suddenly in the rear of the two-story house.
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Photo
     Past winters in Monterey required state road crews to plow the streets. This photo shows a crew working on snow removal in front of Mauzy's store, down the street from Highland Inn on Main Street. (Recorder file photo)
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Vepco Back Creek Project still threatened by financial plight
      Editor's note: The following article was gleaned from the Thursday, August 30, 1979 edition of The Recorder. Joseph C. Pritchard was editor and publisher. RICHMOND — In testimony prefiled last week for the State Corporation Commission's scheduled Sept.
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HOME offers scholarship contest
      MONTEREY — HOME, Highland Occupational Mentoring Experience, in partnership with First and Citizens Bank and the Blue Grass Valley Bank, is sponsoring a "Take an Entrepreneur to Lunch" essay contest as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
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