The Church House Murder Part III
by Joy Odom Based on court records, the trial of Clarence Newton Johnson for the murder of his son-in-law, Ernest “Bill” Buffington,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 21, 202012 min read
Welcome To The Apostrophe Store. May I He’p You?
They say the secret to entrepreneurship is to find a need and fill it. That’s why, when I moved here many years ago and was looking...
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Joy Tucker Odom
Oct 7, 20205 min read
The Church House Murder: Part II
The trial of Clarence Newton Johnson for the murder of his son-in-law, Ernest Buffington, was held at the Dade County courthouse during...
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Linda Wilson
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Library's Halloween Bash to be Drive-Thru This Year
This week’s Ready-to-Read program will be about the moon. In-person programs are on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Be sure to sign...
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Linda Wilson
Oct 5, 20206 min read
1948 Photograph Sparks Memories of High School Clubs
I came across a picture at the library a few weeks ago that fascinated me. It was a picture of almost 40 young women made in 1948, the...
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Joy Odom
Oct 1, 20204 min read
Church House Murder on Easter 1946
The Head River Baptist Church was and is a beautiful, isolated place of worship on Lookout Mountain that seems to radiate peace and...
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Gail Moore Hedden
Sep 28, 20202 min read
Wreaths Across America Honors Many Wartime Veterans
On December 19, 2020, we wish to remember our veterans, honor their service and teach our children about them. To date, Wreaths Across...
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Linda WIlson
Sep 28, 20202 min read
Free Tutoring at Dade Library
A free tutoring program at your hometown library has been launched. There are tutors available at all four branches, Dade, Chickamauga,...
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Compiled by Linda Wilson
Aug 31, 20204 min read
Rising Fawn United Methodist Church
Note: The following article is taken from the History of Dade County, Georgia, Volume II. The articles for this book were written by...
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Linda Wilson
Aug 31, 20202 min read
Library Opens Mondays, Resumes In-Person Ready-to-Read Program
The library staff is looking forward to seeing our patrons six days a week again. The library is adding open hours on Mondays for the...
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Linda Wilson
Aug 18, 20205 min read
Your Civil War Ancestors: Do You Know Which Side They Were On?
Several years ago, Magistrate Judge Joel McCormick’s father, Bert McCormick, borrowed some books I’ve collected in doing genealogy to...
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Linda Wilson
Aug 17, 20202 min read
Library Resumes In-Person Kids' Programs
The exhibit “Rightfully Hers,” which celebrates the 19th amendment, when women got the right to vote, will be at the library throughout...
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Linda Hawkins Wilson
Aug 12, 20206 min read
History of the New Salem Methodist Church
(This article appears in Vol. II of the Dade County History Book. It was written several years ago and does not cover more recent history...
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Linda Wilson
Aug 6, 20205 min read
Letters Read on Memorial Day
As we should always remember, Memorial Day is not just the beginning of summer or an excuse for stores to hold a sale. It is not even a...
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Verenice Cooper Hawkins
Aug 5, 202013 min read
Memoir Part 5: Verenice Cooper Hawkins
Editor's note: This is the final installment of Verenice's memoir about growing up on a mule-and horse-powered farm near Valley Head...
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Alison Henderson, 4-H Extension Educator
Aug 4, 20202 min read
4-H Road Trip Finale--Georgia: There's No Place Like Home
On the final week of our Road Trippin’ Across the USA! tour, we are traveling all around our home state of Georgia. The state is known as...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 30, 202026 min read
The Wrong End of the Elephant: My Fabulous Christmas Present and How it Went Wrong
Editor's note: And now for something completely different... When I began this newspaper, one of the things I wanted to do most was...
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Linda Wilson/Minnie Street/David E. Barker
Jul 30, 20204 min read
Two Dade Church of Christ Histories
These two church histories appear in Volume II of the History of Dade County, Georgia, which was published by the Dade County Historical...
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Verenice Cooper Hawkins
Jul 29, 202014 min read
Memoir Part 4 : Verenice Cooper Hawkins
Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of Verenice's memoir about growing up on a local farm during the Great Depression. It was...
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Linda Wilson
Jul 28, 20203 min read
Keep Reading at the Library!
The Summer Reading program was definitely different this year, and we did miss the programs with big crowds, but I think the staff has...
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