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The Best Things: Books! New & Used Open Under New Management
Brittany Doyle presides over Books New & Used and a young family with truckloads of energy and a big showgirl smile. The saying goes that...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 23, 20187 min read
I Saw The Statue of Liberty Weep (While Smoking a Marlboro): My Brilliant Career as a Liberty Tax Pr
Editorial cartoon by Jerry Wallace V I E W P O I N T S I had an inquiry recently about this Liberty Tax piece I wrote in 2015 and...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 23, 201813 min read
Sexual Assault Victims Advocacy Center Has New Counselor; Provides Free Counseling
The Sexual Assault Victims Advocacy Center is pleased to announce the addition of Amy Long to the Center’s staff in Fort Oglethorpe as a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 23, 20181 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports on Piney Shooting Incident, Ensuing Police Chase
Sgt. Chad Payne, information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office, reported as follows on Saturday's shooting in Piney and...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 22, 20182 min read
Dade County Arrest Report Jan. 12-18, 2018
These are arrests reported by the Dade County Sheriff’s Office from Jan. 12-18. All arrestees are innocent until proven guilty. Jan. 12...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 22, 20181 min read
Free Car Seats for Kids at Health Dept.
Thanks to a grant from the Georgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program, the Dade County Health Department will provide...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 22, 20182 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: The Last Rose Roundup
Apricot Drift not only blooms well and is disease resistant, it doesn't have to be deadheaded. The biggest surprise of the very wet 2017...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 20, 20183 min read
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 19, 20180 min read
Library News: E-Mags Now Downloadable at Library
First, a correction. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Dade First-Family Connections met at the library on the fourth Tuesday of...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 19, 20183 min read
Sgt. Chad's Snow Day Accident Roundup
Sgt. Chad Payne, information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office, was out and about during the Siberia-like weather we've had in...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 17, 20181 min read
Use Caution in Killer Cold, but Dade Roads Passable
The weather is still frigid and forecast to stay that way until Thursday but in Dade, county roads are now passable after Tuesday’s snow....
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 17, 20182 min read
The Great Lake Debate: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Dade's Reservoir Project
When the Dade County Commission last June spent $50,000 to option a 60-acre, $500,000 plot of land along Lookout Creek, with the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 16, 201812 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports: Khat Tales
Sgt. Chad Payne, information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office, reported as follows on last week's arrest of a man alleged to...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 15, 20182 min read
Onions Make Excellent Paperweights. Sort Of.
Editor's Note: This Bob's Little Acre is from 2013. It turned up this morning in my Facebook Memories, and I thought I'd post it here...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 15, 20184 min read
Dade Arrest Report Jan. 5-11
These are arrests reported by the Dade County Sheriff’s Office for the week of Jan. 5-11, 2018. All arrestees are innocent until proven...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 15, 20183 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: The Expanding Universe of No-Spray Roses
(Photo: Carmella Fairytale) For decades, rose hybridizers were unconcerned with disease resistance. They assumed that everyone growing...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 13, 20183 min read
Library News: Change Coming for Downloaders
There are some changes coming for our patrons who use electronic downloads. On February 6, the Cherokee Regional Library System will be...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 12, 20181 min read
Dade Grand Jury Presentments Jan. 11, 2018
The Dade County Grand Jury convened Jan. 11, 2018, indicted the following individuals for the listed charges. All indictees are innocent...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 12, 20181 min read
Endangered Concerned Citizen Species Seem to Make Tentative Comeback at Trenton City Meeting
Mayor Alex Case swears in Police Commissioner Sandra Gray and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Terry Powell. Both were reelected in...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 11, 20186 min read
Smith Will Not Seek Reelection to County Commission
As I start my eighth year as your Dade County District One Commissioner, I want to thank those that voted for me in past elections. And,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 10, 20181 min read
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