Ten years ago:



2013 Mitchell Community College Basic Fire Academy graduates, front row from left, Renee Predjo, Michael Cameron and Chase Gillis; second row Andre Echanique and Nathan Williams; back row, Jared Quarles, Ethan Matthews, Andrew Toms, and Chance Hedrick.

2013 Mitchell Community College Basic Law Enforcement Training graduates, front row from left, Justin Carroll, Shawn Savage, Ryan Mangum and Whitney Moss; second row, Sean Matthuis, Michael Watts, Charles Davidson, Roger Vargas, Pamela Kennedy and Carina Soto-Molina; back row, Alexander Retianu, James Melton, Andrew Kanzigg and Michael Fink.

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Zohaib Shujaat, along with other East Iredell Elementary School first-graders, performing math problems on a chalkboard slate in a one-room schoolhouse.

Speaker platform at the dedication of Iredell Memorial Hospital in 1954.

Twenty-five years ago:



1999 Weekend in the Village.

1999 Weekend in the Village.

1999 Journalists of the Year, from left, Cam Sellers, Blue and Gray editor; Jason Keath, Raider Rap editor; and Kerri Ellenburg, War Cry editor.

Students and staff at Northview School plant an apple tree at the school. The students are preschoolers Luisa Maria Vargas and Jacob Xiong; the adults are Beverly Reese and Tony Waugh, parent volunteers, and Debra Icard, librarian.

Painting the water tank in 1999.

Katherine “Sally” Tharpe, 70, and her granddaughter, Jennifer, 6.

Fifty years ago:



Dennis Nixon, left, and Mayor Thomas Fanjoy.

Roy Evans, left, and Dan Boovey sprucing up fire hydrants in 1974.

1974 Mitchell Community College May Court members from left, Pam Ellington, Toni Stikeleather, Pinky Martin, Charlotte Fleming, Maid of Honor, Sharon Sherrill, Karen Brown, and Vickie Preston. Miss Pamela Wood, center, is the May Queen for the Year.

Cub Pack 175 model sailboat regatta participants, from left, Bill Harper, first place and best workmanship; Brad Borders, second place, and Forest Britt, third place.

Statesville All-Stars basketball team in 1974.

Seventy-five years ago:



Kyles Oldsmobile dealership, 207 W. Front St.

Eagle’s Department Store on the square.

Hero Oscar Montgomery.

One hundred years ago:



One hundred twenty-five years ago:



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