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Echoes Of The Past: February 23, 2011

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SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
February 23, 1936

Mrs. J.O. Grimes is spending several days visiting friends and relatives in Lynchburg.

FIFTY YEARS AGO
February 23, 1961

Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Harlow were business visitors in Clifton Forge recently.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
February 23, 1986

Audrey Nester was named Co-Worker of the Month by the Women of the Moose 911.

FIVE YEARS AGO
February 23, 2006

Brittany Mays, a seventh grader at Clifton Middle School, was the winner of the Alleghany County School division-wide spelling bee, held this morning at Clifton Middle School.

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