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Mountain quare, Southern eccentric

News Staff

Thursday, May 4, 2023

It has been duly noted here how odd are my ways or how my thinking doesn’t always line up with genuine logic. Any Southerner, born and bred, has charming degrees of eccentricity. In the Southern reach of the Appalachians, however, many of us have a heaping helping of oddness.

Talking politics with Skeeter Skates, Ryo Morning Coffee Club

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, April 27, 2023

It had been a while since I heard from Skeeter Skates and his colleagues at the Ryo Morning Coffee Club. That ended this week. In case you are new to these parts, Skeeter is the owner and operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.

Three generations

Loran Smith

Thursday, April 27, 2023

TEMPE, Ariz. – Last weekend here in the Valley of the Sun, there was a gathering of three generations—grandfather, father, and son.

Everyone comes with a story

Ronda Rich

Thursday, April 27, 2023

If your path has ever crossed with mine, if we have ever spent more than 10 minutes in conversation, or your mama ever stopped me in the grocery store, there is an excellent chance that you’re in a story. A stranger pulled up beside me on a sidewalk the other day.

The time is now!

Bill Crane

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia, in many ways ahead of the game for decades, was the cradle of the American Civil Rights Movement, though it took more than gentle rocking to get the movement fully underway, as well as later keep those freedom fires burning.

What they say and what it means

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, April 20, 2023

The following is a Public Service announcement: Congress is in recess and members are back home. Kiwanis, Rotarians, Chambers of Commerce and other assorted groups can expect likely visits from their intrepid public servants.

Farmer’s markets

Loran Smith

Thursday, April 13, 2023

You may be familiar with past references in this space to farmer’s markets. If the subject is like hearing a favorite song again, I hope you will hang on and reflect with me.

Some random thoughts on some random subjects

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, April 13, 2023

As I watched the surreal events this past week concerning the first-ever criminal indictment of a former president of the United States, I thought of a passage in the Old Testament, Hosea 8:7: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

A Yankee saves a bit of The South

Ronda Rich

Thursday, April 13, 2023

There are many compliments that I can give to my husband, Tink. Firstly, he is a devoted man of God. He rises early each morning to spend two hours in Bible study. Daddy would be proud of that. And that he reads the King James Bible, albeit the New King James.

It’s not public schools that are failing; it is society

Dick Yarbrough

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

When did public schools start failing?It had to be after I graduated. I seem to recall a group of dedicated teachers who taught me how to read and write, add and subtract, and even multiply and divide. All these many eons later, I still remember them: Ms. Dent in the 3rdgrade; Ms.

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