Big Sandy Homecoming set for weekend

The town of Big Sandy will be swelling with Pioneer pride this weekend, along with several hundred graduates, former residents, their families and friends, to celebrate the town’s 2015 Homecoming.

Rather than hold homecoming each year at the school and small, individual class reunions, residents decided back in 1975 to hold each year a citywide summer homecoming event every five years, said Jolene Williams, one of the organizers of this year’s homecoming.

Along with the regular events like the banquet Saturday, two nights of street dances, a parade, classic car and antique tractor sho...