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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 12, 20184 min read
Mow the Lawn! Trenton City Commission Tells Biz Owners
At its regular June meting Monday night, the Trenton City Commission opened and accepted the one bid it had received for garbage service...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 12, 20183 min read
Dade Board of Education Budget a Little Up For FY 2019
The Dade County Board of Education at a special called meeting on Monday began its yearly budget process with a presentation of the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 11, 20188 min read
County Commission Writes Some Scary Checks Just as Budget Drama Begins
Dade County Executive Chairman (left) reads a string of whereases and therefores in honor of Peter Cervelli's retirement. There was also...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 11, 20181 min read
J.C. Abbott
James Cecil (J.C.) Abbott, 92, of the New Salem community, died Monday, June 11, 2018. He was a member of New Salem United Methodist...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 11, 20185 min read
Historically Speaking: Finally Proof—State of Dade Nickname Begins 1851 not 1861
Note: This article was originally written in April 2015. As the county prepares for a July 4th celebration which features the July 4,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 9, 20182 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: Gemini 1--Are We Related?
We are in the season of Gemini, which means twins in Latin. The mythological twins, Castor and Pollux, were placed in their constellation...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Homes with Vinyl Siding Go Up Sharply in Tax Reval
These June days are the longest in the year and Thursday’s June meeting of the Dade County Commission stretched out to meet them. With...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 8, 20184 min read
Dade County Arrest Report June 1-7, 2018
These are arrests reported by the Dade County Sheriff’s Department for the week of June 1-7. All arrestees are innocent unless or until...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Library News: Come Get Your Great American Read Books!
We had a great beginning to our Summer Reading program last week. We had 170 kids and 100 adults attending our kickoff and Lego Expo. Our...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 8, 20181 min read
Letter to the Editor: Dunn Protests Vinyl Siding Tax Assessment Increase
V I E W P O I N T S Editor's Note: Dade Chief Appraiser Paula Duvall addressed the issue Ms. Dunn is talking about in this letter to the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 7, 20181 min read
Burning Down The Schoolhouse
On the morning of Wednesday, June 6, an Alabama school resource officer (SRO) was notified of a fire that had been started in the ticket...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 6, 20181 min read
Mobile Lung CT Coach to Visit Dade County June 25
CHI Memorial's mobile lung screening coach will provide computerized tomography (CT) screenings at the Dade County Senior Center on...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 5, 20184 min read
Grandes Nouvelles! Dance Studio Opening in Trenton
When Paige Retchko was growing up in a tiny town in rural south Georgia, she learned to dance from a teacher whose own teacher had danced...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 4, 201812 min read
Great-Great-Uncle Milroy and The Not-so-Great Beach Vacation
I keep getting messages from or seeing Facebook posts by people who are spending this first week of June on the beach. I am not envious...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 4, 20182 min read
James Stewart
James Ramsay Stewart (Jan. 30, 1928–June 4, 2018) passed away peacefully on Monday from congestive heart failure. He will be greatly...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 4, 20183 min read
Drunk? Disorderly? Ordinance Lineup for Thursday Commission Meeting Not As Splashy as Sounds, Says T
After last month's singularly blah county commission meeting--no tax protestors, significant action, beer or dancing girls--the agenda...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 4, 20181 min read
Patricia Bowman
Patricia Louise Bowman, 88, of Menlo, died Monday, June 4, 2018. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 2, 20181 min read
Myrna Reilly
Myrna Marie Reilly, 67, of the New Salem community, died Saturday, June 2, 2018. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and aunt....
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 2, 20181 min read
GSP Identifies Fatality in Brow Road Accident
The Georgia State Patrol Office has released the following on Friday's fatal automobile accident on Sand Mountain: On June 1, at...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 2, 20185 min read
Approaching Lavender: Dade Tourism Expands Into The Purple Zone
Got lavender? Alice Morgan Marrin does at her Lookout Lavender Farm on Moore Road. Have some! If you'd like to spend the afternoon...
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