Forum Flashbacks

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 3, 2000 Food for thought. The Maryville City Council and the Parks and Recreation Department, should they choose, have been given the opportunity to enter into a joint-use agreement with the Missouri Army National Guard in a new armory building that could be a reality in Maryville within…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 28, 1975 An opportunity to do away with parking meters in downtown Maryville was offered to the retail committee of the Chamber of Commerce by the City Council Monday night. The proposal was made by Councilman Gerald “Doc” Henggeler, and calls for replacing the current parking meters with…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 20, 2000 One Maryville boy hopes that his grandchildren will be able to dig up a chapter of his life. Logan Stiens, sixth grader at Maryville Middle School, created a millennium time capsule to capture what was important in his life before the year changed to 2000. He…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 14, 2000 Today marks a special milestone. It’s not a national holiday, but it is Margaret McMillen Hanna’s 105th birthday. In her lifetime many things have changed. Hanna believes that transportation has been the biggest area of change in her lifetime. … “I remember we kids would run…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 5, 2000 …The City of Maryville’s new $328,000 transfer station, located at the city landfill on Business 71, went online for the first time this week loading garbage and trash that would normally have gone into the landfill into semitrailer trucks for transportation to the Hamm Sanitary Landfill…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Dec. 29, 1999 An Elmo woman is being held in the Adams County Jail in Iowa on charges of attempted murder and solicitation to commit a felony. A Shenandoah, Iowa, Police Department press release said Tuesday that Tammy Karg Rightsell, 30, was arrested in the early evening Monday and…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Dec. 23, 1974 EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this letter suffered a heart attack at City Hall. She said in a telephone conversation this prayer, her favorite, was the thanks she felt she owed the people who helped her. To the Editor: A thank you message that comes from…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Dec. 12, 1999 The Bearcats made it interesting, being down 15 points with 3:31 left in the game. But the team proved Yogi Berra right when he said “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” The Bearcats came in and won their second straight national title by defeating the undefeated…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Dec. 5, 1999 For the second straight year, the Bearcats are headed to the national championship game in Florence, Ala., after defeating the Indiana (Pa.) Indians, 20-12, Saturday afternoon. And for the second straight year, the goalposts were taken down in celebration of the victory. Last season, with the…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Nov. 30, 1999 All 2,013 pipes of the new organ of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception will be in full voice at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, when Conception Abbey will celebrate the organ’s blessing and present the inaugural recital. … The organ’s builder, Michael Bigelow of M.L. Bigelow &…