“Shore patrol is screaming at me on the radio, ‘Man overboard! The boat has been hit! Man overboard!’ There were 149 sailors and marines on this mike boat. It was struck by a freighter that was coming in,” longtime Clintonite and former Navy Officer Joe Cloninger remembered about that fateful Jan. 17, 1977, night in Barcelona, Spain.

American Legion Post No. 41 Commander Donald Miller is a familiar face in Clinton, mostly due to his generous community involvement. But not everyone is aware of the many years this Clinton native spent traveling the world, first for 23 years while in the U.S. Air Force, and afterward.

A torrential downpour covered a thickly forested mountain in western North Carolina. The drum of heavy raindrops pounding against leaves and ground drowned out all sound, save for a few expletives shouted out when unfortunate souls would slip on the mud while ascending a 55-degree incline on the waterlogged mountain.

Deck department aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush installed one of two 30-ton anchors on the ship’s starboard side June 16, bringing the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier one step closer to completing its docking at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.