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Trenton Commission Pets Pooches, Pays Pavers and Plans Party at August Meeting
The Trenton City Commission entertained a special guest at its regular August meeting Monday night—one that was more than normally wiggly...
Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 10, 20165 min read
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Dade County Commission Meeting Unveils Some News, Some Strife, Some Number-Shuffling
The Dade County Commission's regular August meeting on Thursday was mostly devoted to shoving numbers around on county balance sheets,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 9, 20167 min read
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Serialized Fiction: Monsters, Part I
This is an experiment. Old-timey newspapers used to serialize fiction and it was enormously popular with readers. I remember an account...
Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 4, 201611 min read
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Rosemary for Remembrance, Charcoal for Bee Sting: Herbs and Herbalism at the Center of the Universe
Herbs herbs herbs! At the the Wildwood Herb Shop, they're available whole, powdered, pure or in combinations, and in tablets, tinctures,...
Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 3, 20165 min read
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Fire on the Mountain! Lookout Conflagration 95 Percent Contained
Covenant College provides a scale for the scope of the Lookout Mountain wildfire in this shot snapped Friday by federal information...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 18, 20165 min read
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A Gig at the Center of the Universe: Trenton Tel Announces Rollout
Chattanooga makes a big deal out of being “Gig City” because of its high internet speed and that’s understandable. It must be rough on a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 15, 20164 min read
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What Should Trenton Choose As A Logo?
At the Trenton City Commission’s regular monthly meeting Monday night, Mayor Alex Case asked the assembled commissioners to consider this...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 12, 20162 min read
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The Schools, the Future and Mr. Clean Eraser: Dr. Harris Speaks at Library
Dr. Jan Harris, Dade's new schools superintendent speaks Thursday at the library her predecessor...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 27, 20165 min read
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Dade County Commission Passes $9 Million Budget
County Executive Ted Rumley (left) with Dist. 1 Commissioner Mitchell Smith The Dade County Commission quietly passed a fiscal year 2017...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 24, 20162 min read
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No Public at Public Budget Hearing; But Pretty Good Audience Anyway
Library proponents, elected officials and county staffers were a rapt budget hearing audience. No bona-fide public showed up at a public...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 17, 20163 min read
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Dade Stands Up Sen. Perdue's "Mobile Office Day": Utopian Contentment or What?
It was “mobile office day” in Dade County for Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) on Wednesday, when the junior U.S. senator for Georgia sends...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 17, 20163 min read
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Happy Ending for Vicious Dog Ordinance Opponents; Possibly More Doggie Headaches for Other Owners
Emilee Winsky (standing), pictured here protesting Trenton's bad-dog ordinance in April, got the city's green light to adopt a pit bull...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 14, 20165 min read
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Soaring Property Revals Make A Stir at Commission Meeting
Joanne Reynolds protests her 158 percent tax increase to the commission. The burning subject at Thursday’s June meeting of the Dade...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 3, 20165 min read
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"Out-of-the-Box" Worship: Hutch Garmany and Grace Community Church
Hutch Garmony's office is in a back room at Guthrie's Chicken and his parishioners gather on Sundays in a storefront. but that doesn't...
Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 2, 20166 min read
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About a Pig...
With seniors poised to collect their diplomas this evening, Dade school system officials were too busy this morning to talk to The Dade...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 27, 20163 min read
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Incumbents Win Local Races By Landslide
The cake County Executive Ted Rumley's office ordered for the apres-election celebration reads "Best Boss Ever" rather than...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 25, 20162 min read
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2016: The Dullest Election Year Ever .... But Kinda Nice, Too
V I E W P O I N T S I live at the center of the universe and I like it! Everybody’s so nice here! That was the epiphany I had at Saturday...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20166 min read
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Debate Part 2: District 4, Coroner, Sheriff, Other
For most of the candidates in this election year’s scant handful of contested races, the Saturday debate sponsored by local radio/TV...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20165 min read
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Vote on Tuesday! Debate Candidates Stress This Is It For Dade Races (Part 1)
County executive candidates, from left, Wes Hixon, Cliff Auman and incumbent Ted Rumley. “Vote on Tuesday.” That was a theme repeated...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 23, 20165 min read
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Good God A-Mighty, Which Way Do I Steer? Pat's Place: A Patburger at The Center of The Universe
Pat Greene (left) poses with her granddaughter, Megan Blevins, at her new restaurant, Pat's Place, at the corner of Hwys 136 and 189 on...
Robin Ford Wallace
May 20, 20163 min read
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