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Dade Board of Education Personnel List May 18

May 19, 20201 min read

Dade Board of Education Personnel List May 18

At its Monday afternoon meeting, the Dade County Board of Education made the following personnel changes for next school year: It...

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Dade's Marathon Debate: Part 1-Rumley v. Wooten for County Exec

Robin Ford Wallace

May 19, 202011 min read

Dade's Marathon Debate: Part 1-Rumley v. Wooten for County Exec

One of the casualties of this blighted year of COVID-19 is local politics. Candidates have had little chance to campaign in a shutdown...

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Hartline Endorses Moore for State Senate

Phillip Hartline

May 18, 20202 min read

Hartline Endorses Moore for State Senate

Editor's note: The following is an open letter from Dade District 2 Commissioner Phillip Hartline. May 16, 2020 Dear Citizens of Dade...

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Some Joyous Tidings: Driver's Services, City Pool Open, and Free Testing Every Day at Health Dep

Robin Ford Wallace

May 18, 20204 min read

Some Joyous Tidings: Driver's Services, City Pool Open, and Free Testing Every Day at Health Dep

The Planet had stopped synopsizing the Dade County government's daily 3 p.m. COVID-19 briefings, but there were so many important...

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Library's Summer Reading Program Will Adapt to COVID-19 Situation

Linda Wilson

May 18, 20202 min read

Library's Summer Reading Program Will Adapt to COVID-19 Situation

Everything is different in 2020, and that will be true of the library’s summer reading program, too. Our theme is Imagine Your Story....

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Connie Ward

May 18, 20202 min read

Announcing Rising Pines Farm Market

Editor's Note: This is an open letter from Connie Ward, who is opening a new Thursday farmers market on Lookout Mountain. The idea of an...

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Robin Ford Wallace

May 17, 20201 min read

Lila Hix

Lila Hix, 79, of Wildwood, died Sunday, May 17, 2020, at her residence. Lila was of the Methodist faith and was preceded in death by her...

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Ann Bartlett

May 16, 20202 min read

NIce and Easy

Looking for a low-maintenance, problem-free, long-lived shrub? Look no farther than the viburnum. Know as “cranberry bush” in Europe,...

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Robin Ford Wallace

May 14, 20201 min read

James Allison Price

James Allison Price, 86, of Wildwood, died Thursday, May 14, 2020. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He...

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Sgt. Chad Reports: Boy Strikes Preacher in Rising Fawn

Sgt. Chad Payne

May 14, 20201 min read

Sgt. Chad Reports: Boy Strikes Preacher in Rising Fawn

Sgt. Chad Payne is information officer, as well as a detective, for the Dade County Sheriff's Office. On May Tuesday, May 12, at...

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Dade Uses "Town Hall Tuesday" to Talk Up SPLOST

Robin Ford Wallace

May 12, 20206 min read

Dade Uses "Town Hall Tuesday" to Talk Up SPLOST

From left, Barry Irwin and Ray Cross of the DCSO, Trenton Mayor Alex Cross and Christy Smith, Trenton's pulchritudinous police pontiff....

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Vikki Mills

May 12, 20203 min read

Letter to Voters: Vikki Mills Announces "Pro-Life Certification"

Editor's note: This is an open letter from Dist. 1 Georgia statehouse candidate Vikki Mills. The Planet, which by no means endorses or...

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Candidate Debate This Thursday, and You're Not Invited--But Please Tune In

Robin Ford Wallace

May 12, 20202 min read

Candidate Debate This Thursday, and You're Not Invited--But Please Tune In

File shot: County executive candidates debate in the Dade County Public Library in 2016. This year's version will also be at the libe,...

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Everybody Who's Anybody's Got Antibodies...

Robin Ford Wallace

May 11, 20203 min read

Everybody Who's Anybody's Got Antibodies...

County Executive Chairman Ted Rumley announced at Monday's daily 3 p.m. county briefing on COVID-19 that he had tested positive on the...

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Ann Bartlett

May 9, 20202 min read

If You Can’t Be with the One You Love

As my first Mother’s Day in this area approached, I was amazed by the fabulous bouquets families were bringing to cheer up hospitalized...

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State of Dade at Week End: News from Commission Meeting and Daily Briefings

Robin Ford Wallace

May 8, 20207 min read

State of Dade at Week End: News from Commission Meeting and Daily Briefings

The May Dade County Commission meeting on Thursday was an echo of April's--not the usual mad monthly whirl of democracy in action but...

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Sleepy Trespasser on Stolen Motorcycle Woken, Arrested at Hammondville Flea Market

Press Release

May 8, 20201 min read

Sleepy Trespasser on Stolen Motorcycle Woken, Arrested at Hammondville Flea Market

HAMMONDVILLE, Ala. — On Monday (May 4th, 2020), the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the I-59 Flea Market on Highway 117...

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NRA Says It Misfired, Endorsed Wrong Dist. 1 Candidate

Robin Ford Wallace

May 8, 20202 min read

NRA Says It Misfired, Endorsed Wrong Dist. 1 Candidate

The National Rifle Association on Thursday rescinded its endorsement of one candidate for the District 1 Georgia House of Representatives...

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Robin Ford Wallace

May 8, 20201 min read

Ruby Lee Staniszewski

Ruby Lee Staniszewski, 84, of Trenton, formerly of Sunman, Indiana, died Friday, May 8, 2020, in a local hospital. She enjoyed family,...

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Linda Wilson

May 7, 20202 min read

Don't Fret Over Fines--All Is Forgiven!

I know regular library users get anxious about possible library fines, especially in the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in...

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