Looking Back – August 1

2007

Mayor Fred Armstrong and department heads proposed increasing the city’s 2008 budget by 2.3 percent in large part because of a reevaluation of gasoline prices and use by city vehicles.

1992

Many Edinburgh residents remained without electrical power a full 24 hours after being hit by what the National Weather Service declared to be a tornado.

1967

Five local families received word their sons serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal were uninjured when the ship was destroyed by fire off the coast of Vietnam.