Learning from the past: News making Record headlines years ago

Staff reports
Published: October 30, 2008

2007: Stanardsville Area Revitalization (STAR) President Don Pamenter said that he would like to see a “(residential) development in the town.“  Pamenter, head of the group created to revitalize the town, made the remark at a public meeting on October 11 to a professional planner with Richmond’s K. W. Poore & Associates, a community development planning and urban design firm. “Since Stanardsville has only 500 residents, they alone are unlikely to provide enough business to attract and sustain many retail stores,“ Pamenter explained in a phone interview after the meeting.

2003: The Dragons traveled south Friday night to keep a date with the Charlottesville Black Knights. Charlottesville, league champions the past two years, had slumped this year, but were eager to get rolling again. William Monroe, on the other hand, had lost their last two football games and suffered crucial injuries. Still, the proud visitors played their hearts out, losing by one point in overtime.
The Dragons punted their first possession but got the ball back when LB Dennis Johansen recovered a C’ville fumble. But Monroe was forced to punt again and the Black Knights promptly ran it in from 34 yards-the extra point made it 7-0.

1998: The Greene County School System continues to prepare for a trial to determine liability in the long standing strip search controversy.
More then 20 students filed suit against Superintendent Ray Dindledine, WMHS Principal William Baggett, Assistant Principal John Garrison, teachers Tim Morris and Darren Leake and the Greene County School Board last fall. School Attorney Douglas Guynn recently requested and received a continuation in the case, which had been set to go before U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon last Friday.

1983: Miss Senannie Beaty never had much formal education but what’s she learned in the school of life would fill volumes. Sitting erect in a bedside chair in the Ruckersville home of Emogene and Eugene Baugher where she now lives, Miss Senannie, 90, seems somehow ageless. Her brown eyes are at once kind and shrewd, able to size up character instantly. Hair strands the color of spun milkweed floss are combed neatly back with long braids pinned along the sides of her head. Born 1893 in Warren County, W. VA. she was christened Annie Rebecca Beaty, a name quickly modified to Senannie by her late brother, John.

1948: Don’t let your Halloween spirit run in the wrong direction this year.
An appeal not to molest important State highway warning signs during the usual Witch night festivities was put to the people of Virginia this week by the state highway department. Warning signs mutilated or defaces may be the cause of serious accidents.
Pranksters in their hilarity endanger the lives of many people on Halloween night by changing, damaging or removing special warning signs, highway official said and add thousands of dollars to the annual repair bill. This cost naturally reverts to the people thru highway maintenance costs.