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B of E Excerpt: The Planet Dogs The Superintendent's Fashion Footsteps
Here is an excerpt from The Planet's article about the Dade Board of Education's July meeting, on the principle that those too occupied...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 18, 20172 min read
Etowah nabs DeKalb suspect in burglary charge
DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff’s investigators had an ongoing investigation on Joseph Wayne Willis, 31, of Fort Payne, for a burglary that...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 18, 20171 min read
Dade Board of Education Millage Rate Announcement
The Dade County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a 2017 property tax millage rate of 15.509 mills, which is the same rate as...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 18, 20172 min read
Dade Board of Education Adopts Budget, Keeps Millage Rate, "Accepts Growth." Oh. And Gets
Special Programs Director Debra Brackett (foreground, left) is honored by Dr. Jan Harris (foreground, right) for her work in special...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 18, 20176 min read
The more it changes, the more it stays the same--thank God! New Meg's Diner Opens in old Randy&#
Dade County, strategically located at the center of the universe, is a great place to live but not one that is eat up with places to eat...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 17, 20174 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: You Didn't Miss the Boat
Rain every weekend, special occasions, visitors, vacations---so many things can sidetrack a gardener. Don't fret. You can still plant...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 15, 20172 min read
Letter to the Editor: City Needs Boats
V I E W P O I N T S Letter to the Editor Dear Planet: Just to clarify some info here (July 12 Dade Planet article about July 10 Trenton...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 14, 20171 min read
Library News: Free Lunches for Kids Continue Tues.-Fri. Through July at Library
Summer Reading went out with a bang, with lots of prizes given out and most importantly many, many books read! Our last program was a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 14, 20171 min read
Editorial: Shamey, Shamey to the Trenton City Commission
V I E W P O I N T S One of the hardest personal lessons I’ve learned in a long and sinful life is that what people say behind your back...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 13, 20175 min read
Dade Fugitive Captured in DeKalb
Craig Carrell, a fugitive wanted in connected with an incident last week in which two Dade officers were injured, was taken into custody...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 13, 20172 min read
Need Wood Chips? Trenton's Got As Mulch As You Want!
What the Trenton City Commission wants the public to know this month is that, with the new environmental anti-brush-burning rules, the...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 12, 20175 min read
DeKalb County Law Nabs Charlie Wooten
On Sunday, DeKalb County (Ala.) sheriff’s deputies and Ider police officers conducting a routine driver’s license check arrested a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Trenton City Elections Set: Clerk Job Officially Axed
At its regular July meeting on Monday evening, the Trenton City Commission tidied up arrangements for its odd-year elections this...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20173 min read
Lucky Charms (Not): Dade Sheriff Reports Weekend Drug Arrests
Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross recently released the following law-and-order news: A Dade County deputy noticed a wanted subject, Jamey...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20171 min read
DeKalb Sheriff Reports Drugs, Stabbing Over Weekend
On Saturday, while doing a welfare checkup on a child in a home where drug activity was suspected, DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff’s...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20172 min read
Fiction: Pouic and the Lady Bird: Part 2
We resume our fiction series with the final half of Pierre Gripari's Pouic et la Merlette, as translated by yrs. truly. For Part 1,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 11, 20179 min read
Dade County Commission: Taxes, Transit, Secret Dope Gardens
Besides setting the county’s fiscal year 2018 millage rate for property taxes and scheduling public hearings for the same (see previous...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 10, 20178 min read
Bartlett on Gardening: Boldly Beautiful Cardoon
Cardoon towers commandingly over a mixed spring border. Last year, I wanted to add some interest to the front border. I paired my...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 8, 20172 min read
Lookout Mountain Pizza Opens: Ain't (Not Neither) No Honky-Tonk
V I E W P O I N T S Me and mah baby went honky-tonkin’ Saturday night in the wilds of rural Dade County, swillin’ likker at a speakeasy...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20175 min read
County Tax Increase -- Sort Of -- Requires Public Hearings
At Thursday's meeting of the Dade County Commission, the commissioners voted to decrease the millage rate for county property taxes for...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 7, 20173 min read
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