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Dottie Abercrombie
Nov 19, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Trenton UMC Invites You to "Parade of Mangers" Before Christmas Para
Start planning your Christmas activities now! Plan to come by Trenton United Methodist Church before the Christmas parade on December 14...
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Nathan Wooten
Nov 18, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Come to Expo!
Registrations are RED HOT for vendor spaces at the upcoming DADE SMALL BUSINESS EXPO to be held at Dade County High School on Saturda,y...
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Dottie Abercrombie
Oct 24, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Miz A Urges You to Support Library Friends Group
The Dade County Friends of the Library have their very own national week of celebration. On the week of Oct. 20-26, they will join the...
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Sophia Price
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Homeschool Group Recommends Forester Apiary
This is a letter to the editor from Sophia Price, who gives this report on a homeschool group's recent field trip to Ed Forester's bee...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 20, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Dade's Scenic Beauty in Peril
Editor's Note: This is a letter to the editor from the Wildwood Preservation Alliance. To Our Neighbors in the Independent State of Dade,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 30, 201910 min read
The Mary Poppins Zone: Zonin', Listenin' and Why I Changed My Name
This is an editorial about the current zoning issue in Dade County. But first: a confession and a funny story. Confession: For 29 years I...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 27, 201914 min read
Suck My Dixie! Truth, Justice, the TennCare Arrests and What I Did On My Summer Vacation
"The world is too much with us," Wordsworth wrote famously. In my case, I don't know about the world but The Planet has been coming out...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 2, 20193 min read
Dear Readers: A Note on The Planet's April 1 Edish
Dear Readers: If I have a vice--and I do, I do, I've got like 48--it's a tendency to go for the Cheap Laugh. I love jokes and spoofs and...
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Sheli Gilley
Mar 7, 20194 min read
Letter to the Editor: Mom of Child with Seizures Challenges Sheriff on Cannabis Oil
Editor's Note: On March 5, the Georgia Legislature passed House Bill 324, which would legalize the cultivation and harvesting of cannabis...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Feb 27, 201916 min read
The Planet Looks at Tax Services
It's tax time again! For small business owners, that can mean Schedule Cs and SEs, bagfuls of receipts and so many headaches that many...
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Coach Skip Poole
Feb 12, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Coach Poole Eager For Semi-Pro Recruits
REGISTRATION UPDATE (for The Wolverines semi-pro Dade team) We certainly realize that your time is valuable and so we want to make this...
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Skip Poole
Feb 8, 20193 min read
An Open Letter to Dade County from Coach Poole
Editor's Note: Coach Skip Poole is owner of the Chattanooga Steam semi-pro football team, which is planning to relocate to Dade County....
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Robin Ford Wallace
Feb 4, 20196 min read
(Republication) Build Thee More Stately Mansions, O My Soul! (And Tax The Crap Out Of Them.)
Editor's Note: Superintendent Jan Harris and the Dade Board of Education convene this afternoon at 6 p.m. for a special called meeting to...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 30, 20191 min read
Letter to the Editor: Fredock Amazed at Nonworking Hydrants, Logging Mess
Thanks for the article on the nonfunctioning water hydrants. I'm amazed that water hydrants are not functioning at such an alarming rate...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Dec 29, 201812 min read
2018 In Review, or: Why You Should Send The Planet Money
This is the time of year when newspapers review their headlines and remind readers of the news they've delivered in the preceding 12...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Letter to the Editor
Editor's Note: This is a letter to the public from Nathan Wooten, organizer of the annual Dade Small Business Expo, at which he is...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 14, 20187 min read
It Is, Too, My Damn Business
This is not fixin’ to be one of those long, florid editorials I feel called upon to write sometimes, stuffed with Shakespeare quotes,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Open Letter: Anti-Lookout Logging Activist Responds to Online Critics
Editor's note: Jennifer Blair spoke at the Dade County Commission's Nov. 1 meeting to ask the commissioners' help against the wide-scale...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Open Letter to Dade County: Speak Up to Stop Deforestation
Photo: Runoff from the logging operation swamps the big horseshoe switchback on Highway 136 East near Cloudland Canyon State Park. Dear...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 6, 20183 min read
This Week, Dade (and The Planet) Will Honor Veterans!
November is a happening kind of month, but without enough daylight to fit all the happenings into. The time switch at the first of the...
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