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Library News: What is Your Favorite "Great American Read"?
Have you heard about the Great American Read? The Great American Read is an eight-part series on PBS that explores America’s 100 favorite...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 31, 20182 min read
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New Fast Food in Trenton? IDA's Not Saying
Trenton may, at some point in the unspecified future, conceivably be getting some unnamed new corporate restaurant. That was the biggest...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 30, 20183 min read
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No News From Vote Recount
The vote count changed microscopically but the percentages remained the same after today's recount in the neck-and-neck Dade Board...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 30, 20181 min read
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Teach Kids to Quilt This Summer! Quilter's Garden Participates in Row by Row Junior
“I learned to sew on a sewing machine and I made this!” That’s what hundreds of quilt shops across America and Canada hope to hear...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 30, 20182 min read
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Citizens Steamed About Rail Crossing Blockages: Here's Who to Call
Photo: This crash two weeks ago happened when a motorist (who was miraculously unhurt) was struck by an oncoming train he did not see...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 29, 20182 min read
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DeKalb Inmate On The Lam: Walks Off Work Detail
The DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff’s Office alerts the community to be on the lookout for Keith Amos Clark, 43, of Tracy City,...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 29, 20181 min read
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Big DeKalb County Drug Raid Nets Meth, Pot, 20 Guns
The DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office reported a massive, multi-agency drug raid in the Collinsville area over the weekend, netting...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 29, 20182 min read
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Memorial Day Weekend News Roundup
Election Dade County Election Supervisor Lowanna Vaughn says a recount will be made Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. in the squeaky-tight...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 29, 20183 min read
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Sgt. Chad's Memorial Day Report
So what if it's a national holiday? Sgt. Chad Payne is on the beat and he reports this Memorial Day Monday as follows: On Saturday, May...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 28, 20182 min read
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Annie Lou Medders Johnson
Annie Lou Medders Johnson, 92, passed from this life on Sunday, May 27, 2018. She was loved by all who knew her. Mrs. Johnson was...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 27, 20181 min read
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Bartlett on Gardening: Blooms Among the Tombs
Many years ago, we lived on a busy corner where I had a fenced, flower-filled side yard. One morning, a woman paused to tell me that...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 26, 20182 min read
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Time to Get Your Lego Expo Creations In, Pick Up Summer Reading Bags!
There will be no Ready-to-Read class on Thursday, May 31. The staff will be gearing up for Summer Reading, which will begin on Thursday,...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 25, 20182 min read
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Dade County Arrest Report May 18-24, 2018
These are arrests reported by the Dade County Sheriff’s Office for the week of May 18-24. All arrestees are innocent until proven guilty....
Robin Ford Wallace
May 25, 20182 min read
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Marathon End-of-School-Year Meetings for Dade B of E
Dr. Sandra Spivey, the elegant ex-superintendent of schools who is now DMS's new principal, gives a "State of the School" presentation to...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20186 min read
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Thanks to All For Great Cemetery Walk Event!
Daniel Middlebrooks as John G. Jacoway in Saturday's cemetery walk event. Last Saturday's Tales and Secrets of the Grave cemetery walk,...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20181 min read
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Dade County 4-H Honors Volunteers
Loyd Gass presents this year's Betty Gass Award to DMS science teacher and 4-H volunteer extraordinaire Fancher Nakhleh. Dade County 4-H...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20181 min read
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GNTC Youth Academy Has Summer Jobs for Youth in Dade
Are you 18 to 24 years old? Or do you have someone that age lying on your couch monopolizing the remote? If so, Cassey Blevins wants to...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20181 min read
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Board of Education Staffing and Coaching Announcements
The Dade County Board of Education met informally for two-plus hours on Thursday, May 17, then reconvened for another more formal session...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20182 min read
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Joe Towns
Joseph Allen Towns, 85, of Rising Fawn, died Wednesday, May 23, 2018. He was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his wife,...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20181 min read
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Update: Bad Night for Incumbents; Voters Signal Desire for Change
Update: Superior Court Judge Ralph Van Pelt Jr., the incumbent, was declared the winner in last night's Republican primary with 745 more...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20184 min read
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