Columns

I’m watching and listening as spring rolls closer.
I’m watching the wild onions, crocus and lilies pop up.  The green is growing.
Listening for the sounds of spring means new bird songs greet my day and the ever-wonderful tree frogs serenade my nights. Hoosier that I am, I liken it to the Indianapolis 500. The cars are rolling up to the line and the engines are roaring.
The trick with the gardening race is to remember it’s a marathon, not a sprint. That doesn’t mean we’re not supposed to peel out.

Column as I see ’em …
The days of taxpayers here subsidizing the jail in Franklin County should be over.
Our inmates can be transported to the moon for all I care, so long as our police officers and jailer never again have to deal with Franklin County Jailer Billy Roberts.
During last Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting, our jailer, Joani Clark, had finally had enough and told magistrates about Roberts’ behavior, and that she is negotiating with Shelby County to move our inmates there.

By Pam Rice

Last Wednesday, I sent a really difficult e-mail to about 50 people here in town.
The contents of that e-mail certainly don’t get any easier to repeat, but here goes nothing.
In case you haven’t heard or read by now, in exactly one week from today (Wednesday), I will be leaving The Anderson News to become the editor of The Spencer Magnet in Taylorsville.