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Other Voices Just thought I'd ask Mitch Clarke I read an article about koi recently and it brought back one of my earliest childhood memories. It's the story of why goldfish are orange, and it involves my grandfather, Briggs Arrington, who owned a laundry and dry cleaners in Cordele, Ga. My mother and I frequently visited my grandparents, and ... More ...
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Thanks for the last yell! Billy Fleming The Historical Society has embarked on a project I have long dreamed would take off. (See Thanks for the Memories on front page.) More than once over the years I have lamented in this space over the history we forever lost with each funeral. The following foreword of a Ken Brooks books always come... More ... All That's Fit to Print Leave well enough alone Brenda Wall One of my favorite episodes of the old sitcom "Night Court" featured Dan the prosecutor and his favorite childhood toy. It turned out to be a potato and while I don't remember the exact plot of the show, I just remember how funny it was when the pompous attorney learned his favorite toy was simply ... More ...
The hand that rocks the cradle Alex McRae Mother's Day will be here before you know it, and children everywhere are looking for the best way to honor Mom for her love, sacrifice and support. Clarence Johnson doesn't have that problem. The 17- year-old New Orleans lad knows exactly what to get his mom, Vanessa: a bail bond and a new handgu... More ... We should all be good stewards To all citizens: Stewardship of this earth is not taking all your junk, And putting it in the pasture, with the cows to bunk. It is not taking all your junk as you ride down the road, Opening up the window and all of it you unload; So that it is an eyesore and polluting the earth, too. More ...
Admission of adultery anyone? Bill Shipp Newt Gingrich told a Vanderbilt University audience last week that the personal lives of presidential candidates should not become an issue in the 2008 campaigns. A couple of weeks earlier, Gingrich confessed on a "family values" radio program that he had engaged in an extramarital affair even as ... More ...
Introducing the real life George Bailey Matt Towery We all remember the great Christmas movie classic "It's a Wonderful Life." The hero, played by Jimmy Stewart, stays home to save his family-run savings-andloan institution, while his brother heads off to become a war hero. Stewart's character, George Bailey, forsakes his own comfort and tries to f... More ... Gin bales 12,728 in 1931 From our Files News from the past 10 YEARS AGO April 3, 1997 A STEERING committee dedicated to establishing a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity elected its first board of directors and slate of officers last week. Early County High School teacher David Allen was elected president; Chris-tine Herndon, secretary; and ECHS p... More ... |
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