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Sgt. Chad Reports DUIs
Editor's Note: Sgt. Chad Payne, information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office, reported as follows on April 30. On April 21,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 30, 20182 min read
Historically Speaking: Remembering and Honoring--52-Year-Old Tragedy Bears Revisiting
(Black and white pictures from Phil Schmidt. I don't have names. DMS) Part I Saturday, April 16, 1966, dawned cool but clear, a perfect...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 29, 20184 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: Bedding Plant Blues
“What should I plant in my flowerbed this year? I want something different, but it has to be easy to grow.” This is the garden advice I’m...
Ann Bartlett
Apr 28, 20182 min read
Children's Health Fair! IDA! Rabies Clinic! FOL! Read All about It In: The Trenton Runaround Apr
Welcome back for a collection of snippets important and un, newsy and featurey, pithy and leth tho, as The Dade Planet pursues its...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 27, 20185 min read
Some Points From Last Week's TSPLOST Luncheon
Speaker Seth Millican addresses the Dade Chamber of Commerce luncheon on April 19. Despite the local furor over TSPLOST, the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 27, 20185 min read
DeKalb's Langley Named to Mental Health Board
DeKalb County Detention Centers Chief Jail Administrator Jonathan Langley was appointed on Tuesday to the Cherokee Etowah DeKalb (CED)...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 26, 20181 min read
DeKalb Busts Trenton Women for Meth
On Tuesday, DeKalb County (Ala.) Drug Task Force agents conducted a traffic stop at the intersection of County Road 155 and County Road...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Got a Great Dade Snap? Enter Trenton Telephone's Cover Page Contest!
Got a great Dade County pic? Enter it in Trenton Telephone's Cover Page contest! Photos can be old like this Dade Historical Society shot...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Dade 4-H News: Cardboard Boxes Still The Best Toys
The Dade County 4-H BB team and coaches. You know that feeling you get when you plan an event and it works out better than expected? Our...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Mom Found Guilty in Child Cruelty Case After 9-year-old Calls 911
In the last of the jury trials scheduled for Dade Superior Court’s spring session, a Dade mother was found guilty today on one of the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 25, 20189 min read
Finishing Cattle Locally? Why Not? Study Begins
Editor's note: This idea of stopping the shipment of cattle off to the notorious factory-farm feedlots in the Midwest will be of interest...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 25, 20182 min read
Sgt. Payne Reports Weekend DUIs.
Sgt. Chad Payne, information officer for the Dade Sheriff's Department, reported as follows on Tuesday, April 24: On April 14th, at...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 24, 20181 min read
The 20-Year Epic Debate: Extensive Planet Coverage of an Extensive Thursday Night
The library was packed Thursday night for KWN's candidate debate. The crowd thinned out some as the debate pushed four hours, then...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 23, 201816 min read
Historically Speaking: Howard’s Waterfall Cave: 1960 News Item Foreshadows Future Events
According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, there are 514 caves in Georgia. Of these, 164 are in Dade County. There are 149 in Walker...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 22, 20184 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: Hummers
A couple of years ago, we master gardener volunteers pitched in to help care for a butterfly garden located at a local high school. It...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 21, 20183 min read
Library News: Don't Forget Glow Run Next Friday!
The book selection for the May Book Club meeting is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This is a fictional account of a totalitarian...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 20, 20181 min read
Dade County Arrest Report April 13-19, 2018
These are arrests reported by the Dade County Sheriff’s Office for the week of April 13-19. All arrestees are innocent until proven...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 20, 20182 min read
Jury Finds Alleged Pipe Bomber Innocent of Everything But Seat Belt, Open Container
A Dade Superior Court jury today in short order found accused pipe bomber Teshena Renee Bates guilty of nothing worse than having an open...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 19, 20186 min read
Awards Rife at April B of E Meeting
Ella Case embarks on the rocky road of the writer's life with a first-place Young Authors award she won for her story about ice skating....
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 18, 20184 min read
4-H News: Refrigerator Flowers and Elephant Toothpaste
The school year is winding down, but our Dade County 4-H’ers are still busy! The Arts & Crafts Club made adorable flowers from cupcake...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 18, 20182 min read
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