Looking Back

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts

25 Years Ago

August 29, 2001

Diana Chromey of Hewitt thought she was getting a speeding ticket on the evening of May 18. She and her husband Gerald were heading home on Highway 210 when a state patrol vehicle passed her traveling east. About five minutes later a little maroon car driven by Kevin McGrane, 25, tore past them like they were standing still. When the Chromeys drove closer to the intersection of 210 and Todd County Road 77, they saw the patrol car was off the road and at an angle. McGrane was pulled over for speeding. The Chromeys stopped and saw McGrane in the ditch. The trooper had bumped the man with the patrol car and tried to knock the sawed off shotgun out of the man’s hands. Gerald got out of the car and called 911. Gerald and the officer wrestled the man and got the gun away from him. The Chromeys received the State Patrol’s Meritorious Service Award.

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The Bertha-Hewitt Hangout summer program ended on Friday, August 24, with a party for the participants and staff. Jean Shaw asked the participants if they knew the photographer’s name who was taking their picture? They didn’t, but they knew her as the “picture lady.”

75 Years Ago

August 30, 1951

Bertha friends of Allen Lind, former instructor of music in the local school, will be glad to hear he will play with the Atlanta, Georgia, Symphony Orchestra this coming year.

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The School Board of District 55, north of Hewitt, decided to have their pupils transported to the Hewitt School. There are about 15 pupils.

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