A brand-new dimension was added to one of the telephone numbers in town. Thanks to Commerce Union Bank, area residents could obtain the current weather forecasts, along with the time and temperature, by dialing one number, 836-3133.
Paul Measles, Denny White, and Ernest Cotten were recognized by Sparta Mayor Kenneth Milligan for their efforts in foiling an attempted robbery and kidnapping at Sparta Discount Drugs.
Members of Sparta-White County Rescue Squad worked to free two victims from a car that had collided with a utility pole. Both victims were taken to the local hospital after extraction from the vehicle.
1992
White County Fire Board members voted to check on the legality of creating a fire district in the town of Doyle.
A representative from the state’s planning office was asked to visit White County to help decide if voting boundaries should, or even could, be changed for three families that were now cut off from their normal voting districts.
Two back-to-back house fires in the middle of the week kept firefighters busy. One fire was at 7:08 p.m., on Frank Anderson Road, while the second fire was reported at 8:41 p.m., on Butler Street.
2002
Findlay Elementary received a book donation. Martha Sue Broyles, a member of United Daughters of the Confederacy, presented librarian Sherrie Beth McCulley with a book titled “Civil War, the South.”
Several childcare providers from White County Even Start and Lucky Charm Daycare attended Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance, at Tennessee Technological University.
Sheriff Guy Goff presented Detective Chris Isom with the William Hickey Award for outstanding performance in his compacity as a law enforcement officer.
2012
Local author KoKo Nervelli held a book signing of her new novel “Between the Devil and the Big Blue Sky,” at Riverbank Books on Bockman Way. The book described the lessons the author had learned throughout her life.
White County Girl Scouts celebrated 100 years of courage, confidence, and character at their 14th annual White County Girl Scout Day Camp.
Emergency volunteers responded to the site of a reported plane crash near the White County/Van Buren County line. A private citizen volunteered to fly his private plane overhead to locate the fire and site of the crash. While he reported seeing flames and a great deal of smoke, he could not locate any wreckage. After hours of searching, Tennessee Highway Patrol, White County Sheriff Department, and Van Buren County Sheriff Department called off the searches and determined there was no plane crash.
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