Opinion
Band’s hubris is admirable
When it comes to young people these days (as I wave my metaphorical cane at the hooligans of tomorrow), we squash dreams in order to snuff out the potential for entitlement. Spare their feelings, spoil the child.
Want to be an astronaut? Talk to NASA about sending another shuttle into space.
Want to be a ballerina? The odds are definitely not in your favor.
Despite the odds, students who dream of doing bigger, better things have something in common — passion.
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Don’t spend library property tax cut all in one place
System taking fear out of incarceration
Column as I see ’em …
Ever considered smoking some meth or snorting a little oxy?
I haven’t, and aside from a desire to avoid being a junky there’s one major reason why: I’m petrified of ending up in jail.
Until the past couple of years, I had the misguided, or perhaps naïve, notion that hard drugs like meth, coke or prescription pills would lead to a decade or two behind bars.
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By Hannah Casciola
ACT scores symptom of public school ills
This year Anderson County High School juniors took the ACT test. This is the third year that the scores have been consistently leveling out at 18.3, which is below the national average of 21.1, and the state composite scores of 18.8.
Other counties have scored higher than Anderson. Some of those are Franklin at 19, Spencer at 18.7, and Shelby at 18.7.
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Remembering Daddy on Father's Day
It was a day like any other workday.
I woke up around 6 and was messing around the house, getting ready . . . and the phone rings.
“Something’s wrong with your daddy,” Mama said.
After talking to her a few seconds, I found out he was hurting in his back. I could hear him over the phone, groaning. She had already called my younger brother, Bertram, who lives up the road from them.
“I’ll call an ambulance,” I said and hung up.
After calling 911, I called her back and Bertram was there.
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Count on sex device, porn lawsuit going to trial
Eager to hear why Chambers is out
Column as I see ’em …
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that judge-elect John Wayne Conway gave his opponent in November’s election the heave-ho as highway supervisor.
Chip Chambers, who opposed Conway, didn’t exactly endear himself to the cagy political veteran by posting numerous videos on his website that picked apart Conway’s 20 years as a magistrate.
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COLUMN: Tips for apple goodness all winter long
Columnist Cheryl Steenerson provides tips to enjoy apples all winter long.
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Letters to the editor - 10.13
Letter writers Raymond C. Drury and Jackie Robinson each submitted a letter in support of judge-executive candidate Donna Drury.
Letter writers Brad Martin, Darrell and Shirley Bunch, Ray Woodyard, and Matthew M. McWilliams each submitted a letter in support of Sheriff Troy Young.
Letter writer Naomi Hedden says newly paved roads are music to her ears.
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COLUMN: Sometimes unaffected, sometimes not
Unaffected is not a word I would normally use to describe myself, but some aspects of this job require me to be just that.
Take for instance a structure fire Monday night. Sitting at my desk, almost ready to go home, I heard the dispatcher call the fire out on the scanner.
When packing up my things, I tossed the camera bag over my shoulder thinking I’d get a few photos before I went home.
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Letters to the editor - 10.6
Give Conway a chance in November
To the editor:
I’m taking this opportunity to thank the many kind people who have opened doors for us during this campaign for the Nov. 2 general election.
Now I’d like to ask a question: If computers, Facebook, YouTube and Topix could be weighed on the left hand, and experience, common sense, honesty and integrity could be weighed on the right, which hand would get your vote?
The right hand will get my vote every time. I consider [judge-executive candidate] John Wayne Conway to be that right hand.
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COLUMN: In the end, votes are what matters
Whether it’s fetching unsweetened tea from Mickey D’s (my wife won’t let me drink sweet tea; she says I’m already too sweet), or meat in the grocery store (no salad stuff, thanks; I only eat things that eat salad) folks love to ask me to predict the outcome of next month’s judge-executive election.
I have no idea why. Were I able to predict future events, instead of using this keyboard to pound out words I’d be using it to trade stocks and futures while eating pork chops and sipping tea on a tropical island.
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