This Week in Citizen-Times History (March 12, 2025)

The March 12, 1992 edition of The Citizen-Times saw the grand opening of Hobdy’s on the Square and Satellite Country on Friday, March 6 of that year.

Several people came out to the ribbon cutting, including Harriette Fowler, Todd Gibbe, Keith Gerald, Dell Hall, Judge Bill Minix, John Hobdy, Mickey Douglas, Tim Hobdy, Mary Jane Hobdy, Mayor George Maxwell, and Primo Funari, the regional manager of Radio Shack.

Additionally, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra came to the high school on March 12 of that year, as an announcement in the paper, with more than 2,650 students and 350 teachers being greeted with a private concert of some of the “most renowned works” of classical music.

The 40-minute concert was held in the Allen County-Scottsville High School gymnasium, having started at 10 a.m., and the orchestra performed works by Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, and Elgar.

While not on the front page, on page 9 of the March 12, 1992 edition of The Citizen-Times, it was announced that the Scottsville Church of Christ at Second and Maple Streets was preparing to donate a projected 85,000 Bibles to the former Soviet Union, which had collapsed in December the prior year.

Mitchell Covington, a minister at the church, explained that they had become involved through Kerry Duke, a Tennessee Bible College teacher, and college representative Jerry Holman, each of which had been to the Soviet Union in 1991.

Additionally, the church was later involved in an Upper Cumberland food drive, which saw one million pounds of food donated to the region.

The Citizen-Times, consolidated of The Citizen (1908) and Allen County Times (1890) on Oct. 10, 1918, has proudly served Scottsville and Allen County for 135 years.