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Dade Goes a Little Greener...From The Ground Up
About 80 people gathered at the Dade Public Library to watch "Symphony of the Soil" and discuss composting. Or maybe it was the food that...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20194 min read
What Cows Eat (And Other Matters Discussed by the Dade Water Board)
The Dade County Water Authority has a new general manager, and its governing board will shortly have new members and a new structure as...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20196 min read
Who Knew? Dade Does, Too, Have Its Own Potential Source of Chromium-6 Contamination
Back in September 2016, when The Planet, if not the world, was new, this newspaper did a long investigative piece headed, "Is Dade Being...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 22, 20197 min read
School Board Continues End-of-Year Personnel Action at Monday Meeting
Terri Bain (center), flanked by Dade Schools counselor Tinena Bice (left) and Superintendent Jan Harris, was honored by the school board...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 21, 20192 min read
Superintendent's Message May 20
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Dr. Jan Harris, Superintendent of Schools
May 21, 20191 min read
Cemetery Walk Draws Scores of the Living
Reese Morrison adjusts an enlarged newspaper photo of Col. Douglas and Catherine Clarke Morrison above their graves in Saturday's...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 21, 20192 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Samaritanism Leads to Car Break-Ins
Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 18, a Dade...
Sgt. Chad Payne
May 20, 20192 min read
Register Your Kid for Summer Reading!
Registration for Summer Reading begins on Monday, May 20. Go to the website for the Cherokee Regional Library at chrl.org and look for...
Linda Wilson
May 20, 20192 min read
4-H Ag Day a Hit With Students
We had a great time at our annual Ag Day last week! We had fourth-graders from Dade Elementary and Davis Elementary. Davis brought its...
Alison Henderson, 4-H Extension Educator
May 20, 20192 min read
Tepals Anyone?
Does any tree conjure up images of the Southeast more than Magnolia grandiflora? The southern magnolia is the state flower of Louisiana...
Ann Bartlett
May 18, 20193 min read
Bethune Arrested on DUI, Vehicular Homicide Charges in Fatal July Crash
Blayton Trevor Bethune, 25, of Bryant, Ala., was arrested last week in connection with the July 2018 death of his passenger in a midnight...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 16, 20191 min read
Trenton City Commission May 13: Liquor Store Referendum, Water Board Choice and More
Eddie Cantrell updates the Trenton City Commission about water board doings at its May 13 meeting. At its regular May meeting Monday...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 15, 20197 min read
Old Canyon Ridge Golf Course Nears Revamped Grand Opening
A helicopter drops a bridge section into place at "The Course at McLemore" on Tuesday in this photo provided by Derryberry Public...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 15, 20191 min read
Charity Barton Named Principal at Davis; Ingle Goes to Central Office
The Dade County Board of Education at its Monday meeting approved a major personnel change: Charity Barton will be the new principal at...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 14, 20191 min read
Founding Families of Dade County
Once the Cherokee Indians were removed from northwest Georgia, newcomers began arriving in large numbers to settle the vacated lands....
Joy Tucker Odom
May 13, 20195 min read
Brock Morrison Cemetery Walk This Saturday, May 18
The Dade County Historical Society will host the second annual Cemetery Walk on Saturday, May 18. The featured cemetery will be the Brock...
Donna M. Street
May 13, 20192 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports
Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. On May 7, just after midnight, a Dade County deputy observed...
Sgt. Chad Payne
May 13, 20191 min read
4-H BB Winners Announced
Last week we held the first annual Dade County 4-H BB Competition for our county teams. We have had two groups that practiced all season,...
Alison Henderson, 4-H Extension Educator
May 13, 20191 min read
Superintendent's Message May 13
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Dr. Jan Irons Harris
May 13, 20191 min read
Roads Less Traveled
Let’s hop in a time machine and journey back 200 years to see what was the “bee’s knees” then in the rose world. Burnet roses were quite...
Ann Bartlett
May 11, 20193 min read
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