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Jul 8, 20192 min read

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...

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Ann Bartlett

Jul 6, 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...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 5, 20191 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...

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Lily Pad/Quilter's Garden Reopens as Blooms & Stitches

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 3, 20193 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.:...

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Water Board Announces Special Called Meeting to Discuss Sale of Stealth Sewage Plant

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...

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Sgt. Chad Payne

Jul 3, 20191 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...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 3, 20192 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...

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School Board Presents Deficit 2020 Budget

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 2, 20194 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...

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Officer Down: The Untimely Death of Dr. James Russell Brock

Joy Tucker Odom

Jul 2, 20196 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...

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Press Release

Jul 2, 20192 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...

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Courtney Gross Sworn in As New County Coroner

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 1, 20191 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...

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EPD Slaps Knuckles of Dade Chromium-6 User But Clears It of More Serious Allegations. Sort of.

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 1, 20195 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...

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Press Release

Jul 1, 20191 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...

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Linda Wilson

Jul 1, 20192 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...

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Ann Bartlett

Jun 29, 20191 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...

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Tax Commissioner Jane Moreland Celebrates 40 Years with County

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 28, 20192 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,...

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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...

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Dade Doings Last Week: The Planet Catches Up

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 28, 20195 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...

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Suck My Dixie! Truth, Justice, the TennCare Arrests and What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 27, 201914 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...

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Coroner Gray Steps Down; Rumley Says Gross Will Step Up

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 25, 20192 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,...

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