JAN. 8, 1958

Congressman John E. Henderson, Cambridge, announced that he will become a candidate for re-election to Congress in the 15th district.

JAN. 8, 1968

Homer Sherrard, 75, two-time mayor of Cambridge and four-term councilman, retired at the start of the new year as chief operator of the city's filter plant.

JAN. 8, 1978

Wayne McCracken, Cambridge city representative on the Muskingum Area Joint Vocational School District Board of Education, is elected president of the board.

JAN. 8, 1988

Byesville native, Edward J. Korte has been named command counsel of the U.S. Army's Material Command in Alexandria, Va., the highest civilian legal position in the army.

JAN. 8, 1998

At the Cambridge Township reorganizational meeting J.D. Atkinson was elected president and Robert C. Gray as vice president. Robert Burris is trustee and Dean Brown is the clerk.