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It Was a Tornado, Says Weather Service
(Photos of Dade tornado damage in this article were contributed to Dade County by various citizens.) Dade is still mopping up after...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 14, 20202 min read
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Rumley Says Dade Will Start Patrolling Cloudland Canyon Traffic on Friday
In the absence of any action by the governor to close Cloudland Canyon State Park, Dade law enforcement will start patrolling the county...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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Dade Up to Three COVID-19 Cases
It's a tiny uptick next to Atlanta's numbers but an exponential one here --last night's Georgia Department of Public Health Daily Status...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 14, 20201 min read
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Whether You Stay Home Because of COVID-19 or Because of Storm, Stay Home, Says County
The message citizens have been getting from their county, state and federal governments since the COVID-19 pandemic hit has been stay...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 13, 20206 min read
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Lovely Lily
Every gardener has an irresistible favorite flower. Mine is the lily. I buy lilies from catalogs and on impulse in garden centers. With a...
Ann Bartlett
Apr 11, 20203 min read
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Mullis Adds Voice to Rumley's To Cut Through Informational Red Tape
State Sen. Jeff Mullis appeared in today's 3 p.m. livestreamed COVID-19 livestreamed county briefing, promising to help Dade officials...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 10, 20204 min read
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Governor "Monitoring" Whether Compromise State Park Order is Working, Says Rumley
Dade County Executive Ted Rumley in his Thursday update during the daily county COVID-19 briefing went over the changes Gov. Brian Kemp...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 10, 20204 min read
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Here Are Some Books And Resources To Help You While Away the Quarantine
If you have never had time for a book club, maybe you have that time now. This month our Dade County Public Library Book Club will be...
Linda Wilson
Apr 9, 20202 min read
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Extra Virus Case Dade Gained Could Be One Walker Lost
Dade County is up to two COVID-19 cases today on the Georgia Department of Public Health daily status report from the one case it's had...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 8, 20203 min read
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Stay Home, Says Georgia--Unless You're a Poll Worker: Dade Needs 75, Says County Boss at Today&#
Dade Elections Supervisor Lowanna Vaughan in a file shot earlier in the year, when she thought Georgia's new voting machines were the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 7, 20205 min read
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Local Cops Finding Quarantine Situation Generates DUIs, Domestic Crime
Presumably, penning people into perpetual proximity has proved perilous to the public peace, putting a peevish peal in the peroration of...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 6, 20205 min read
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Statement by Public Health Regional Director Voccio
ROME, Ga.--Just about everyone in our public health office is feeling that knot in our stomachs, so we know a lot of other people must be...
Dr. Gary Voccio
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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Let Your (Virtual) Library Help You Through the Quarantine!
Let me continue to remind those of you who have books checked out that you do not need to worry about getting any fines. There will be no...
Linda Wilson
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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Battle of the Blues
Until 1856 when Sir Henry Perkins accidentally discovered a mauve-colored coal tar product, all dyes were from natural sources. Most (but...
Ann Bartlett
Apr 4, 20203 min read
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Friday COVID-19 Update: Dade's One Virus Case Has Died
At today's livestreamed COVID-19 update, Dade County Executive Chairman Ted Rumley confirmed what the relentlessly efficient Dade jungle...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 3, 20206 min read
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What Are Shelter-in-Place Rules? We'll See
Maj. Tommy Bradford says Dade cops will not be "harassing" people during shelter-in-place period. Today's livestreamed Dade County...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 2, 20204 min read
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MULLIS: Update from the Capitol
Editor's Note: The following is a press release from Georgia Sen. Jeff Mullis (R – Chickamauga) After adjourning for our 29th Legislative...
Sen. Jeff Mullis
Apr 2, 20203 min read
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Open Letter From The Superintendent on Remainder of School Year
Dear Dade County Parents and Students: We are in the midst of unprecedented times. As I stated earlier, the only constant is change....
Dr. Jan Irons Harris, Superintendent of Schools
Apr 2, 20203 min read
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"No one knows what's better for Dade County than Dade County." County Boss Defies Gove
At today's daily Dade County COVID-19 livestreamed briefing, County Executive Chairman Ted Rumley said that if Gov. Brian Kemp won't...
Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 1, 20204 min read
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Dade High Institutes "Remedial Sex Ed" Class to Save Human Race
Editor's note: The Plaid Dammit prides itself on consistently getting the news out to readers while the other newspapers lie around with...
Borin Word Follis
Apr 1, 202010 min read
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