10 YEARS AGO

SEPT. 28, 2016

When Lanning Pharmacy clerk Chelsea Darrow was clearing out the business’s attic, she found a box holding five prescriptions from as far back as 1902. One was for a mixture of cocaine and zinc as a numbing agent for oral surgery. “Apply with finger three times a day,” the prescription said. Its cost? 35 cents.

HRK Variety Store owner Bernice Beach, 78, has sold her store to John and Joan Diver of Augusta, who Beach says “are planning on keeping everything as close to the way I did it as they can.”

Area cowgirl Paige Ensey is pictured tipping her hat to Old Settlers Day parade patrons Saturday. Boy Scout Troop 102’s float won in the open category. The class reunion spirit award went to the Marion High School Class of 1971. Eastmoor United Methodist won in the church float category, and the junior class won in the class floats category.

Paige May and Peyton Heidebrecht were crowned homecoming queen and king Friday at halftime of Marion High School’s 48-0 shutout of Remington. The Warriors scored touchdowns on four of their first 10 plays.

Randy Brazil, with more than 20 years of experience, has returned to the Hillsboro Police Department after a three-year sabbatical in California, where he helped run a family