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Need Wood Chips? Trenton's Got As Mulch As You Want!
What the Trenton City Commission wants the public to know this month is that, with the new environmental anti-brush-burning rules, the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 12, 20175 min read
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DeKalb County Law Nabs Charlie Wooten
On Sunday, DeKalb County (Ala.) sheriff’s deputies and Ider police officers conducting a routine driver’s license check arrested a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 12, 20172 min read
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Trenton City Elections Set: Clerk Job Officially Axed
At its regular July meeting on Monday evening, the Trenton City Commission tidied up arrangements for its odd-year elections this...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20173 min read
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Lucky Charms (Not): Dade Sheriff Reports Weekend Drug Arrests
Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross recently released the following law-and-order news: A Dade County deputy noticed a wanted subject, Jamey...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20171 min read
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DeKalb Sheriff Reports Drugs, Stabbing Over Weekend
On Saturday, while doing a welfare checkup on a child in a home where drug activity was suspected, DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff’s...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20172 min read
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Fiction: Pouic and the Lady Bird: Part 2
We resume our fiction series with the final half of Pierre Gripari's Pouic et la Merlette, as translated by yrs. truly. For Part 1,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20179 min read
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Brenda Eakin
Brenda Eakin, 74, of Rising Fawn, died Monday, July 10, 2017. She attended Edgewood Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20171 min read
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Dade County Commission: Taxes, Transit, Secret Dope Gardens
Besides setting the county’s fiscal year 2018 millage rate for property taxes and scheduling public hearings for the same (see previous...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 10, 20178 min read
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Vina Bowen
Vina Pearl (Nash) Morrison Bowen, 85, of Bryant, Ala., died Saturday, July 8, 2017. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 8, 20171 min read
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Bartlett on Gardening: Boldly Beautiful Cardoon
Cardoon towers commandingly over a mixed spring border. Last year, I wanted to add some interest to the front border. I paired my...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 8, 20172 min read
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John Henry Ellison
John Henry Ellison, 60, died at his home Friday morning, July 7. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and was employed by Ellison Electric...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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Lookout Mountain Pizza Opens: Ain't (Not Neither) No Honky-Tonk
V I E W P O I N T S Me and mah baby went honky-tonkin’ Saturday night in the wilds of rural Dade County, swillin’ likker at a speakeasy...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20175 min read
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County Tax Increase -- Sort Of -- Requires Public Hearings
At Thursday's meeting of the Dade County Commission, the commissioners voted to decrease the millage rate for county property taxes for...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20173 min read
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Preserve Developer Asks Judge for New Trial
File Shot: The Waterfall House at Johnson Crook, where plans for a luxury housing development called The Preserve at Rising Fawn were...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20176 min read
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Tonya Marston
Tonya Michelle Marston, 43, died Friday, July 7, 2017, from injuries received in an automobile accident. She was a freelance constructor...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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Danny Berry
Danny Eugene Berry, 57, died Friday, July 7, 2017, at his residence. He was a master mechanic for Top Flight in Chattanooga and was of...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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Charles Chastain
Charles Kermitt Chastain, 83, of Flat Rock, Ala., died Friday, July 7, 2017. He was a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and a member of Full...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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Alma Pryor
Alma Pearline Tinker Pryor, 87, of Trenton, died Thursday evening, July 6, 2017. She was a 1948 graduate of Dade County High School. She...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 6, 20171 min read
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DeKalb Sheriff's Department Reports Holiday Drug Arrests
DeKalb County (Ala.) deputies were called to a residence on County Road 221 on Saturday, July 1, concerning a suspicious vehicle. Once on...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 6, 20171 min read
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Convicted Developer Says He Should Have Testified Against Dade Magistrate Judge: Hearing Tomorrow
A developer convicted of fraud in a Rising Fawn land scam will be back in federal court in Chattanooga Thursday morning, testifying that...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 5, 20174 min read
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