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Library Halloween Do: They Came Just The Same
(Photo: The force is strong in this one. But she can't do jack about the weather.) Marshana Sharp (left), manager of the Dade County...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 30, 20193 min read
School System Hires Its Consulting CPA as Finance Director, Names E-Sports Coach. (E-Sports?)
The Dade County Board of Education has found a replacement for retiring finance director Paula Stallings: Russell Raney, the consulting...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 29, 20191 min read
Bradford Retires Friday
The Bank of Dade will hold a reception in honor of John Bradford from 2-4 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 1, to celebrate his retirement. John...
Audrey Clark
Oct 29, 20191 min read
Design Our New Library Card and Win $100!
We had a very interesting Book Club meeting this month discussing The Corpsewood Manor Murders with author Amy Petulla (below). Petulla...
Linda Wilson
Oct 28, 20192 min read
Kudzu, Red Doors and Volunteer Fire Departments
Sometimes, I just can’t settle on a straight-up historical story. If you have written anything that requires research, then it was...
Donna M. Street
Oct 28, 20193 min read
Dade County Students Score Above GA Average CCRPI Score; All Schools Earn Five-Star Climate Rating
The College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) scores were released today by the Georgia Department of Education. The CCRPI is...
Dr. Jan Irons Harris, Superintendent of Schools
Oct 28, 20193 min read
Superintendent's Message Oct. 28, 2019
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Dr. Jan Irons Harris, Superintendent of Schools
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Black Magic
Many years ago I read a magazine article about a woman who tore out her two-year-old professionally-planned landscape because she had to...
Ann Bartlett
Oct 26, 20193 min read
Trenton Adopts Greener Rules for City Stores; and Other Highlights of Recent Public Meetings
Trenton's Food City already has "green spaces" in its parking lot. But Fred's (below), built much later, does not. Green spaces are not...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 25, 20196 min read
Letter to the Editor: Miz A Urges You to Support Library Friends Group
The Dade County Friends of the Library have their very own national week of celebration. On the week of Oct. 20-26, they will join the...
Dottie Abercrombie
Oct 24, 20191 min read
Come to the Library to Read Local Authors' Books!
In July, we had a book signing here at the library with some local authors present to sell and sign their books. I just finished reading...
Linda Wilson
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Pardue, Rodriguez Both Take Pleas
The fall jury session of Dade County Superior Court is winding down in the usual judicial anticlimax as both high-profile defendants...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Letter to the Editor: Homeschool Group Recommends Forester Apiary
This is a letter to the editor from Sophia Price, who gives this report on a homeschool group's recent field trip to Ed Forester's bee...
Sophia Price
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Superintendent's Message Oct. 21, 2019
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Dr. Jan Irons Harris, Superintendent of Schools
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Zoning Committee! Beer Board! Halloween Bashes! Read About 'em Here!
Dade is a happenin' kind of place this week, so your friendly neighborhood Planet is posting this list of events, from meetings to...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 22, 20194 min read
GSP Releases Names, Report in Monday's Fatal I-24 Crash
The Georgia State Patrol has released the names of the two people killed in Monday's fatal single-car accident on I-24 in Dade County....
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Double Fatality in I-24 Accident
Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. This morning, Monday October 21, at approximately 10:15...
Sgt. Chad Payne
Oct 21, 20191 min read
Single-Vehicle Crash Kills Hicks
Following is the Georgia State Patrol report on the Friday single-vehicle crash that killed Charles Hicks of Rising Fawn. The Planet...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 20, 20191 min read
Tulip Time
Does any flower trigger more impulse buying than the tulip? I confess to perusing every colorful catalog that lands in my mailbox. When I...
Ann Bartlett
Oct 19, 20193 min read
Dade To Build Animal Shelter in Current Splost Period
Last week’s special called work session of the Dade County Commission on SPLOST (special purpose local option sales tax) was sparsely...
Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 18, 20193 min read
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