June 9 – June 9, 1949, in The Star: A full-page advertisement announces the grand opening of Worthy’s Super Market at 420 Main Street, a business formerly known as Oxford Super Market. Sample prices include cigarettes at $1.76 per box; a pound of Grade A sliced ​​bacon, 49 cents; bananas at 14 cents a pound; and five pounds of sugar for 44 cents. Also this date: After completing negotiations today, the City of Anniston purchased from Anniston Land Co. a 3-acre parcel of land on North Quintard Avenue near 25th Street. It is listed as Lot 1, Block 439 of the land company’s redistricting of Virginia Heights. A resolution authorizing the transfer of the property to the National Guard was approved upon approval of the resolution to purchase the lot for $3,000, payable in three annual installments. In a separate property purchase, the City Commission today also approved the city’s purchase of a six-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Edgemont Cemetery property.
June 9, 1999, in The Star: Following Harlen Robinson’s decision to resign as head football coach at Ranburne High School last week, Ranburne principal Fred Lovvorn has named Bulldog assistant football coach Chad Young the new head coach, effective June 17. worked as an assistant on offense and defense during the 1998 season. Young, a 1989 graduate of Ranburne — he received all-state honors his senior year on the football team — graduated from West Georgia University in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
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