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Robin Ford Wallace
May 19, 20201 min read
Dade Board of Education Personnel List May 18
At its Monday afternoon meeting, the Dade County Board of Education made the following personnel changes for next school year: It...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 19, 202011 min read
Dade's Marathon Debate: Part 1-Rumley v. Wooten for County Exec
One of the casualties of this blighted year of COVID-19 is local politics. Candidates have had little chance to campaign in a shutdown...
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Phillip Hartline
May 18, 20202 min read
Hartline Endorses Moore for State Senate
Editor's note: The following is an open letter from Dade District 2 Commissioner Phillip Hartline. May 16, 2020 Dear Citizens of Dade...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 18, 20204 min read
Some Joyous Tidings: Driver's Services, City Pool Open, and Free Testing Every Day at Health Dep
The Planet had stopped synopsizing the Dade County government's daily 3 p.m. COVID-19 briefings, but there were so many important...
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Linda Wilson
May 18, 20202 min read
Library's Summer Reading Program Will Adapt to COVID-19 Situation
Everything is different in 2020, and that will be true of the library’s summer reading program, too. Our theme is Imagine Your Story....
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Connie Ward
May 18, 20202 min read
Announcing Rising Pines Farm Market
Editor's Note: This is an open letter from Connie Ward, who is opening a new Thursday farmers market on Lookout Mountain. The idea of an...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 17, 20201 min read
Lila Hix
Lila Hix, 79, of Wildwood, died Sunday, May 17, 2020, at her residence. Lila was of the Methodist faith and was preceded in death by her...
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Ann Bartlett
May 16, 20202 min read
NIce and Easy
Looking for a low-maintenance, problem-free, long-lived shrub? Look no farther than the viburnum. Know as “cranberry bush” in Europe,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 14, 20201 min read
James Allison Price
James Allison Price, 86, of Wildwood, died Thursday, May 14, 2020. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He...
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Sgt. Chad Payne
May 14, 20201 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports: Boy Strikes Preacher in Rising Fawn
Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer, as well as a detective, for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. On May Tuesday, May 12, at...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 12, 20206 min read
Dade Uses "Town Hall Tuesday" to Talk Up SPLOST
From left, Barry Irwin and Ray Cross of the DCSO, Trenton Mayor Alex Cross and Christy Smith, Trenton's pulchritudinous police pontiff....
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Vikki Mills
May 12, 20203 min read
Letter to Voters: Vikki Mills Announces "Pro-Life Certification"
Editor's note: This is an open letter from Dist. 1 Georgia statehouse candidate Vikki Mills. The Planet, which by no means endorses or...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 12, 20202 min read
Candidate Debate This Thursday, and You're Not Invited--But Please Tune In
File shot: County executive candidates debate in the Dade County Public Library in 2016. This year's version will also be at the libe,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 11, 20203 min read
Everybody Who's Anybody's Got Antibodies...
County Executive Chairman Ted Rumley announced at Monday's daily 3 p.m. county briefing on COVID-19 that he had tested positive on the...
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Ann Bartlett
May 9, 20202 min read
If You Can’t Be with the One You Love
As my first Mother’s Day in this area approached, I was amazed by the fabulous bouquets families were bringing to cheer up hospitalized...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 8, 20207 min read
State of Dade at Week End: News from Commission Meeting and Daily Briefings
The May Dade County Commission meeting on Thursday was an echo of April's--not the usual mad monthly whirl of democracy in action but...
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Press Release
May 8, 20201 min read
Sleepy Trespasser on Stolen Motorcycle Woken, Arrested at Hammondville Flea Market
HAMMONDVILLE, Ala. — On Monday (May 4th, 2020), the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the I-59 Flea Market on Highway 117...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 8, 20202 min read
NRA Says It Misfired, Endorsed Wrong Dist. 1 Candidate
The National Rifle Association on Thursday rescinded its endorsement of one candidate for the District 1 Georgia House of Representatives...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 8, 20201 min read
Ruby Lee Staniszewski
Ruby Lee Staniszewski, 84, of Trenton, formerly of Sunman, Indiana, died Friday, May 8, 2020, in a local hospital. She enjoyed family,...
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Linda Wilson
May 7, 20202 min read
Don't Fret Over Fines--All Is Forgiven!
I know regular library users get anxious about possible library fines, especially in the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in...
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