This Week in White County History, Feb. 18-Feb. 24

 2014 

• Three White County softball players – Silas Hatmaker, Earl Emerton, and Marc Bilbrey – came together to rejuvenate the Doyle Softball Field so that an adult league could be formed.
• White County School Board members attended Day on the Hill at the state capitol, joining more than 400 other school board members, superintendents, and legislators from around the state.
• Emilee Howard, Bella Taylor, and Amber Hudgens were named to the District 6AAA All-Tournament Team as the Warriorettes finished second in the tournament.

2004 

• Project Child Safe was introduced to promote the use of gun locks to protect children in homes with guns.
• White County Fair won the Division A Premiere Fair Award.
• White County Middle School students visited the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport.

1994

• WCMS Warriors won their first championship with a score of 56-43.
• Ten “Twenty-first Century Classrooms” with computers, software, and televisions were added to the White County schools.

1984 

• Wal-Mart had just opened a new store, hiring 60 White Countians.
• Tennessee Department of Safety opened a driver license photo station at the Cookeville Mall and began issuing the first Tennessee photo drivers licenses.
• County officials visited Washington D.C. to meet with congressmen to obtain funding guarantees for completion of the four-lane highway.

1974                        

• Lester Flatt saluted Sparta and White County on Hee Haw.
• Central Church of Christ’s congregation observed a note burning in recognition of the end of a $180,000 debt incurred in 1965.
• Twenty-five women formed The Hospital Volunteer Program at White County Hospital.