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Kim Hufford, then-16, of Factoryville, was selected as the Abington Journal’s first Girl of the Week in 1982.

The Factoryville Post Office as it stood in April 1966, when construction began on the new building a block away on College Avenue.

Dalton fire fighters pull down the porch roof after a fire in 1989 destroyed the former Glenburn Elementary School, which was under remodeling as a private residence.

1966 — After eight years of planning and false starts — everything from the suicide of a contractor to a political dispute involving the building’s location — construction began on the then-new Factoryville Post Office on College Avenue. The equipment from the first building was deemed “antique” and was fully replaced upon the move.

A history of the post office, which ran in the Journal, stated the most exciting mail it handled was the love letters of Charles Homeyer.

“Mr. Homeyer was a fat but romantic type who sent letters off to the magazines that run classified ads for the lovelorn,” the article read. “As he got replies, and wives, they ended up in the late 1940s, murdered under the cement cellar of his Factoryville home. He later was convicted of several of their murders and Mr. Wademan [William C. Wademan, Postmaster at the time] remembers testifying at his trials of the letters that would come through the quiet post office for the man who lived down the street.”

1968 — Clarks Summit resident Oscar Koveleski set a record of 49.634 seconds for the fastest time in the 20th running of the Hershey Hillclimb. Attended by about 8,000 people, the two-day event included 217 sports cars and drivers from the northeastern U.S. Koveleski previously held the record at 50.836, which he set in November 1966 and was broken by George Fry, of Allentown at 50.553.

1975 — The Abington Area Walkathon for the March of Dimes, which started at Keystone Junior College, drew 584 marchers on a chilly Sunday with a total of $11,200 in pledges.

1982 — Kim Hufford, then-16, of Factoryville, was selected as the Journal Girl of the Week. She was shown in a photo modeling a pair of roller skates. The article listed her interests in “pets, dancing, modeling and horses” and dislike of “mistreatment of animals, including hunting.”

1989 — The former Glenburn Elementary School was destroyed by fire. The building was, at the time, being remodeled as a private home by owner Jerry Robb.

“It was through the roof,” said Dalton Fire Chief Doc Stacknick, who was first on the scene. “It’s a total loss.”

Only two corners of the brick building were left standing after the fire, which was called in by a neighbor who awakened to the sound of the custom-made Pella windows blowing out.