City of Hurricane Mural; Photographed by Ken O’Neal

Editor’s Note:

The article which follows was published 25 years ago in commemoration of the Breeze’s 100th birthday. It tells the story of how the Hurricane Breeze came to be and is being reprinted in observance of our 125th birthday.

The October 16 date of this issue of the Breeze marks 125 years of delivery of the newspaper to subscribers by means of the U.S. Postal Service.