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25 YEARS AGO
From the newspaper of March 22, 1996
Shocked Sutherland anti-wind farm campaigners were left reeling in dismay on Wednesday following the go-ahead given by Highland Regional Council's planning committee for two controversial wind farm applications above Sutherland.
Meeting in the villages's community centre, councillors voted 14:8 in favour of an application by Micon (UK) Ltd for 20 turbines at West Garty and 12:7 for a further application from Renewable Energy Systems for 17 turbines on a site to the north of Gartymore. The decision goes against a recommendation of refusal from regional planners.
Coxswain Neil Dalton of the East Sutherland Rescue Association's inshore lifeboat was detained in hospital at Golspie on Sunday after he and four others were tipped into heavy seas during an exercise. A helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth, heading out to Glencoe on a routine training flight, was sent on a rescue mission to the Golspie shoreline. Mr Dalton suffered a head blow and ricked spine.
50 YEARS AGO
From the newspaper of March 19, 1971
By eight votes to two, Sutherland Education Committee decided at Brora on Wednesday to reopen, next August, Skerray’s one-teacher school to take the primary children in classes 1-4. The more senior children will continue to attend the primary department at Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill. Skerray school had been temporarily closed by the committe and moving the reopening on Wednesday was Mrs Catherine B. Mackay, of Tongue, seconded by Mr Donald Macleod, Strathnaver. The Rev. J. M. Macarthur had argued for its permanent closure, seconded by Mr John Macpherson, Golspie High School’s headmaster.
After hearing representations by the county council and Mr John Macpherson, headmaster of Golspie High School, Sutherland Licensing Court, last Tuesday, at Dornoch, called for spot checks of licensed premises by police as one method of combating underage drinking. Mr Macpherson had refuted statements that the problem did not exist in Sutherland.
100 YEARS AGO
From the newspaper of March 17, 1921
The first post war ball held under the auspices of B. Coy. 5th Seaforth Highlanders took place at Bonar Bridge on the evening of Friday 4th March, with great success. The hall was most tastefully decorated, it being like a fairy scene, with evergreen festoons and bunting, interspersed with tartan plaids and Chinese lanterns. Music was supplied by the local string band, led by bandmaster Thos. Wright with his usual ability.
At an investiture of Naval and Army Officers and Hospital Matrons held last week at Buckingham Palace, Miss Mary Munro, eldest daughter of the late Hugh Munro, Strathy, was decorated by His Majesty the King with the Royal Red Cross. Miss Munro, who was trained as a surgical nurse, was for upwards of 30 years in the accident wards of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and had retired a few weeks before the war broke out, but immediately offered her services for King and country, and was for the whole of the war in charge of the Kettlebridge Military Hospital, Kent.
