2025 marks Harriett’s 30th year “Looking Back” in weekly columns offering readers a glimpse at history through local news clippings gathered from years gone by. The former schoolteacher began writing “85 Years Ago,” which she inherited from late Dublin Courier Herald publisher W.H. Champion, in 1995. Eight years later, she added a companion feature entitled “50 Years Ago,” treating Dublin-Laurens County natives to a more recent taste of nostalgia. The columns appear, respectively, in each Saturday and Tuesday edition.
In the news on this day in 1939: Local officials expect a light turnout to vote in a statewide election and county churches prepare for a massive tent revival.
Planning for the Great Oconee River Raft Race and the county commission's decision on the purchase of new voting machines topped the headlines on this day 50 years ago.
On this day on May 25,1939 students at Dublin High School prepare for graduation while school comes to a close with celebrations and activities across the area.