Do you remember?

1996

▪ Dr. Bob Martin, Fort Mill native and longtime Fort Mill physician, retired. Martin said he planned to do a lot of fishing and hiking.

▪ Veteran Councilman Grady Ervin defeated two challengers for the Ward 2 seat on Town Council. Charlie Boyette was elected to an at-large seat.

▪ Fort Mill Town Council turned down a request for a Main Street firm to designate eight parking spaces in a town-owned parking lot for truck loading and unloading.

▪ Laura Key, Fort Mill High School sophomore, set a school record for girls’ basketball when she poured in 33 points against Great Falls.

1976

▪ Fort Mill’s lone juror on the York County Grand Jury for 1976 was Cletus H. Helms.

▪ The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets suffered their first double loss of the year as both the boys’ and girls’ teams fell to the Andrew Jackson Volunteers of Kershaw.

▪ Little Miss Sharon Elizabeth Watts, 3  1/2 , was recently crowned “Wee Miss Indian Land” at the Indian Land High School auditorium.

▪ The Kut and Kurl Beauty Salon opened at 102 Main St. with Bobbie Morris, Judy Freeman and Teresa Therrell as operators.

1956

▪ The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets won their third straight game of the season, 58-57, over WTS. Dickie Adkins led the Jackets with 16 points.

▪ Forty-four voters went to the polls to vote in the municipal election. There were no contested races and Luther G. Patterson was re-elected mayor of Fort Mill.

1936

▪ Tip Neal, operator of a café on White Street, near the Southern Railway, was charged with selling illegal liquor.

▪ Practically all of the 11-inch snowfall of Dec. 29 had disappeared because of recent heavy rains. A period of cold days and nights contributed to the slow dissipation of the snow.

1916

▪ B.E. Patterson was re-elected for a two-year term as mayor of Fort Mill defeating W.B. Meacham.

▪ An idea was being pitched around to build a bridge across the Catawba River from Fort Mill to Rock Hill at the end of J.M. Cherry’s property on the Rock Hill side of the river.

This story was originally published January 10, 2016 at 10:14 PM with the headline "Do you remember?."