John B. Nisbet Jr., a native son who served Jacksonville for several terms as mayor, died Aug. 5, 1995.

Georgia authorities along the Alabama border were getting put out with Alabamians dumping trash in their state 25 years ago.

The plan in 1995 was to start dumping 50 tons per day of construction and demolition debris on this site located way out West 23rd Street.

Housewives who have wanted a more professional location to do their canning in the Alexandria area need wait no longer.

Soldiers must look sharp and correctly turned out at all times — that was the word from Fourth Service Command Headquarters this week in 1945.

A building would be years in the future, but businessmen of the community knew the time was right, in the summer of '45, to get a civilian-based YMCA started here.

Dr. Robert A. Hingson, a native of Oxford, will soon be transferred to Memphis, Tenn., on an assignment with the Public Health Service.

The chief of Anniston's police in 1945 wasn't kidding around: You kids quit shooting 22's and slingshots inside the city, or else there's gonna be some arrests.

Anniston children had plenty to occupy themselves with in Zinn Park in the summer of 1945.

Jack Holland, 67, built his company from the ground up, starting with two employees running an auto trim shop.

Even though they weren't building guns and tanks to win the war against Japan, Anniston industries had a part to play in the war production effort -- as long as they could get enough bodies on the production lines to do the work needed.

The Anniston City Council in 1995 welcomed the 22 homes of Holly Hill by approving residents’ annexation request.

“We’re trying to pay the faculty and keep the doors open,” said Jack Hopper, vice president for institutional advancement, in 1995. Guess it worked.

A sort of "National Guard of the air" was envisioned by men who got together in 1945 to see about starting an air patrol in the Anniston area.

Believe it or not, there was a time when the local chamber of commerce had to brace itself and make ready for an economic boom time, not a recession. Of course, that was 75 years ago.

Lt. Cloyce Sills of Anniston received orders to advance from Frankfort to Berlin between July 2 and July 5.

A prototype of the Army’s chemical weapons incinerator completed a major step in its mission in July 1995.

We almost lost our county engineer in 1945 when he happened to be in near the spot where bombs fell to earth around Ohatchee.

Anniston City Council, 1995: Yeah, you know that airport board we voted to get rid of? Turns out we need one of those if we want a foreign trade zone at the airport.

In 1945 Anniston law allowed the establishment of colonies of trailer-dwellers in town, as long as they maintained certain standards of cleanliness. One at 20th and Noble streets apparently did not.

Back before the internet and even universal telephone coverage, a newspaper's community news sections got the word out about who had been visiting whom, traveling where, or was having a church singing. Today from 1945, we include a bit about Sulphur Springs.

The hundreds of white Anniston school-age children in 1945 who enjoy socializing at the "Teen-Canteen" downtown in the Radio Building have apparently served as an example to adults in Lineville.

The city is coming up on an anniversary, and The Star is coming up on an open-house for an expanded plant, and the editorial writer is happy about what those developments mean.

It wouldn't have saved the fort in 1995, but it might have bought everyone a few more years to prepare, according to Sen. Howell Heflin.