50 years ago

Sept. 27, 1969

— Five men were called for induction into the armed forces by the Local Board No. 16. Men who left for induction were Danny Ray Taulbee, Jolly Edward Shelton, Larry Glenn Palmer, Ronnie Lee Parker and Vince Hall.

Sept. 29, 1969

— 2,300 people consumed 1,300 pounds of prime beef, 3,000 pies, 3,000 buns and 24 cases of beans the at the Iroquois Hunt Club’s 39th Annual Horse Show and Barbecue. The Roger D. Williams Memorial Trophy was won by Country Kildare, owned and ridden by Mrs. Dan Brock Jr., Lexington.

— A letter of commendation honoring him for his high performance on the the 1969 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test has been awarded to Johnny Randolph Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young, GRCHS principal Guy Strong announced.

25 years ago

Sept. 26, 1994

— Kristi A. Way, a GRCHS student, has been named a Commended Students in the 1995 National Merit Scholarship Program.

10 years ago

Sept. 26, 2009

— Sylvia Farber Green of Winchester was one of nine Holocaust survivors interviewed for “This Is Home Now,” an oral history project written by Arwen Donahue and published through the University of Kentucky Press.

— The H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, continues to spread throughout the state, prompting the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Department of Public Health to raise the state’s influenza activity level from regional to widespread.