Look Back ... to making more plans for junior high school, 1948

Nov. 5—Nov. 5, 1948, in The Star: The Anniston Board of Education last night took a look at schematic drawings of the proposed junior high school building to be built on the grounds of the former Alabama Military Institute. Earlier this year there was favor for keeping AMI's gymnasium and incorporating that into the new school's plan, however, said Superintendent Ralph Owings, "It was proved that any attempt to use it in our new plans would cost us more than to start fresh and disregard it altogether." A further decision made last night was that the new junior high school would offer immediate classroom space for 7th, 8th and 9th-graders — this arrangement is considered more efficient from many angles than keeping the 9th-graders at the high school. [All of this, of course, marks the early days of planning for what would be known in a few years, and until 1973, as Johnston Junior High School.]

Nov. 5, 1998, in The Star: Six Alabama freshwater snails, including two that live in streams in Calhoun and Talladega counties, are now officially on the federal list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service last week added the lacy elimia and the painted rocksnail to the list. The two area species were proposed for listing last year. The lacy elimia has been found to still exist in small numbers in Cheaha Creek between Alabama 21 and the confluence of Cheaha Creek with Choccolocco Creek in Eastaboga. Also this date: Inter-national Childrenswear said yesterday it'll be closing its Ohatchee T-shrt plant in two months, costing 163 people their jobs. Company managers aid the plants work would be transferred to overseas factories to take advantage of lower labor costs. Originally opened in 1988 as Ohatchee Sportwear, the company was sold in 1991 to Liberty Trouser, from which it was spun off in 1997.