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Read To Lead: The Planet Orbits Around The Library in This Pleasin' Pictorial
Eloise Gass of Tree City welcomes all to 2019's edition of the Dade Public Library's Read to Lead. The Dade County Public Library's fifth...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 27, 20193 min read
Hikers Enjoyed Almost Perfect Day in Ruins of Dade’s Lost City
Photo of coke oven interior by Charissa Skillern Scamehorn. Photo below of creek by Laura Cureton Cross. Patience is a virtue. Patience...
Donna M. Street
Mar 27, 20194 min read
CHI Lungmobile In Rising Fawn April 3
CHI Memorial's mobile lung CT coach will be at New Lookout Baptist Church in Rising Fawn on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 from 2-6 p.m. Lung...
Press Release
Mar 27, 20192 min read
Water Board Hires Pendergrass as New Water Company Head
The governing board of the Dade County Water Authority announced at a special called meeting on Tuesday the name of the Alabama man it...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 27, 20192 min read
Geneva Geurin
Geneva Lavonne Geurin, 85, of Lookout Valley, died peacefully on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at her residence. Mrs. Geurin was born on...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Remember to Register for April Glow Run!
Ready, set, glow! The 2019 Blue Ribbon Glow Run to bring awareness of child abuse is April 26 at the Dade County High School track at 8...
Linda Wilson
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Dade County 4-H: Building Bridges. And Eating Them.
We still have spots left for 4-H Cloverleaf Summer Camp! This will be for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Rock Eagle the week of...
Alison Henderson, 4-H Extension Educator
Mar 26, 20192 min read
Valerie Hicks
Valerie Hawkins Hicks, 44, of Trenton, died early Tuesday morning, March 26, 2019. Mrs. Hicks enjoyed spending time with her grandbabies...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Superintendent's Message March 25
Click on the image below to access the Super's interactive message!
Dr. Jan Irons Harris
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Do You Remember Anybody Like This? GBI, DCSO Ask For Public's Help with Jane Doe Cold Case
She was young, she may have looked like Little Orphan Annie, she died 30 years ago, and law enforcement wants your help in finding out...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 25, 20192 min read
Sgt. Chad Reports Last Week's Arrests
Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. On Tuesday, March 19, at approximately 3 p.m., Dade County...
Sgt. Chad Payne
Mar 25, 20191 min read
Sheriff to Hold Press Conference about 1980s Body; City Government to Hear Grievance
Here are a couple of interesting-sounding items that will be happening today, for which The Planet had no previous notice; plus another...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 25, 20192 min read
Say It with Flowers
Around 1850, England abolished its tax on glass. This allowed economical construction of large greenhouses in which the exotic, tender...
Ann Bartlett
Mar 23, 20193 min read
Things to Do! News, Gossip and Innuendo! It's THE TRENTON RUNAROUND
The year’s at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 22, 20199 min read
Kathleen Jenkins
Kathleen Mathis Jenkins, 58, of Trenton, died on Friday, March 22, 2019, at her residence. Kathleen was employed by Larry’s Restaurant....
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 22, 20191 min read
Jerry Leverett
Jerry Louis Leverett, 64, of Trenton, died Tuesday, March 19, 2019. “Buzzard” was the most kind, patient and loving person you could ever...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 20, 20191 min read
Forshee Wins City Commission Seat Handily; Water Board Manager Announcement Must Wait
Kirk Forshee will be Trenton's new police commissioner after besting the two contenders in a not-particularly-hard-fought campaign that...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 20, 20192 min read
Picking Up The Pieces: The Aftermath at Chickamauga
Once the Battle of Chickamauga was over, both Union and Confederate armies moved on to prepare to fight again. Left in their wake was the...
Joy B. Odom
Mar 19, 20194 min read
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 19, 20190 min read
Lettie Spurgin
Lettie Ruth Spurgin, 82, of Higdon, Ala., died Friday, March 19, 2019. Lettie was a teacher at Mountain View Christian Academy and a...
Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 19, 20191 min read
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