Old maps, city directories offer clues to Troy’s baking past as one writer’s hunt continues through the Collar City’s bread-making past.

ANTHONY PECOUR, the oldest inhabitant of Troy, died yesterday. He was born Sept. 16. 1761, and was, therefore, a little more than one hundred and nine years old when he died.

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old farming society, the oldest site of its kind ever discovered in Africa outside the Nile Valley.

Troy dropped its opening game of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament 4-2 in their opening game against Old Dominion Wednesday morning.

Over the past two years, Tracy Rebo, Troy’s clerk and treasurer, and other city officials have paired entries in the record book with information from the cemetery plat and a catalog of plot ...