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Moon Gazing and Slime to Take Home--Lots in July at the Library!
Only two more Summer Reading programs for kids and these are a little different from the others: On Friday, July 12, we will have a Moon...
Linda Wilson
Jul 8, 20192 min read
Water Witch or Wizard?
Ah, the dog days of summer when the gardener can relax and reap the harvest of spring’s hard, hopeful efforts. Alas, while the sun tea...
Ann Bartlett
Jul 6, 20192 min read
Fourth of July at Jenkins
The weather cooperated Thursday for the second annual 1945 Dade County Fair (except for the part where it was hotter than billy hell but...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 5, 20191 min read
Lily Pad/Quilter's Garden Reopens as Blooms & Stitches
Liz Riddle's old business on Hwy. 11 just north of the square. She has now reopened two miles further up the road as "Blooms & Stitches.:...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 3, 20193 min read
Water Board Announces Special Called Meeting to Discuss Sale of Stealth Sewage Plant
File photo of "the Course at McLemore" from a PR release as helicopters dropped bridge segments into place at the refurbished golf...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 3, 20193 min read
DCSO Tries to Make Swimming Hole Safer
These signs were placed at the swimming holes on Sells Lane in attempts to make the area a better place for families just trying to...
Sgt. Chad Payne
Jul 3, 20191 min read
New Water Board Meets for an Eyeblink
Dade's newly-anointed water board, from foreground clockwise: Robin Rogers, legal advisor; Sherri Walker, water company assistant...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 3, 20192 min read
School Board Presents Deficit 2020 Budget
The Dade County Board of Education held a required public hearing on its proposed fiscal year 2020 budget at noon on Monday. A second...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 2, 20194 min read
Officer Down: The Untimely Death of Dr. James Russell Brock
The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary is a massive and imposing structure located on the southeast side of the city of Atlanta. It was built...
Joy Tucker Odom
Jul 2, 20196 min read
Lungmobile at PHC Trenton July 16
CHI Memorial’s mobile lung CT coach will be at Primary Healthcare in Trenton on Tuesday, July 16, from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Lung cancer...
Press Release
Jul 2, 20192 min read
Courtney Gross Sworn in As New County Coroner
New Dade County Coroner Courtney Gross (center) poses with officials and her family after being sworn in this afternoon. From left to...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 1, 20191 min read
EPD Slaps Knuckles of Dade Chromium-6 User But Clears It of More Serious Allegations. Sort of.
A Trenton electroplating company that uses the carcinogen chromium-6 was written up for "secondary violations" after the Georgia...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 1, 20195 min read
Faith Bible Institute Graduates Three
Pictured left to right are Alan Brooks, Pastor Jim Lilley, Mickey Schrimshire, Jonathan Green, Kirby Hill and Assistant Director Winnie...
Press Release
Jul 1, 20191 min read
Come Tie-Dye Shirts at the Library!
The staff and Friends of the Library wish everyone a happy Fourth of July. The library will be closed Thursday to celebrate Independence...
Linda Wilson
Jul 1, 20192 min read
June Tidbit From The Master Gardener
Gardeners should wash clothing worn while spraying pesticides in a separate wash load. Run an empty washer load after washing that...
Ann Bartlett
Jun 29, 20191 min read
Tax Commissioner Jane Moreland Celebrates 40 Years with County
Tax Commissioner Jane Moreland has been working for Dade County for 40 years now and it doesn't look as if she's going anywhere soon,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 28, 20192 min read
Independence Day Blasts in Dade
(Photo from the New Salem Facebook event.) Whoops! The Fourth of July is next Thursday, and The Planet almost forgot to remind you that...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 28, 20192 min read
Dade Doings Last Week: The Planet Catches Up
The Planet's always eccentric orbit was even more than usually full of zigs and zags last week, resulting in its absence at those...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 28, 20195 min read
Suck My Dixie! Truth, Justice, the TennCare Arrests and What I Did On My Summer Vacation
"The world is too much with us," Wordsworth wrote famously. In my case, I don't know about the world but The Planet has been coming out...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 27, 201914 min read
Coroner Gray Steps Down; Rumley Says Gross Will Step Up
Johnny Gray and Courtney Gross debate in 2016 during their respective bids for the Dade coroner's job. Now that Gray is stepping down,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 25, 20192 min read
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