Tragic tornadoes
      Tornadoes are dangerous, deadly danagerous. Many of us though do not take severe weather warnings seriously enough. Last Thursday's killer storms should be a lesson for all of us. When the weather forecast says there is a chance for bad weather, keep your television on and listen to the radio. G...
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Flocking to Selma
      The anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" was observed this past Sunday in Selma, remembering the terrible event on the Edmund Pettis Bridge that helped to spark the Civil Rights Movement and improved rights for black citizens. But it was more like a Democratic political rally as presidential hopefuls Hi...
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Running off Dr. Corts
      The loss of Dr. Thomas Corts as head of Alabama's much-troubled two-year college system is a tremendous blow to those who want to see the wrongs of the system corrected and improvements made. The longtime president of Samford University was the picture of honesty and integrity. He truly wanted to ...
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Alabama Scene
Corts never had chance
Bob Ingram
      You have all known couples who you knew when they married that it wouldn't work…that they simply were not made for each other. The union of Dr. Thomas Corts with the State Board of Education was such a marriage. It was doomed from the start.
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Editor's Notes
Tornadoes a long time danger
Jim Cox
      Last Thursday's tragic tornadoes that hit Alabama weren't the first and certainly won't be the last. Twisters have plagued the state since the days when the Indians were the only inhabitants here. The Millers Ferry storm wasn't the only one to hit neighboring Wilcox County. One of the worst of th...
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Famous Quotes
      "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." William Durant "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most re...
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Letters to the Editor
      Saving Cinnamon Dear Editor, We would like to extend our most sincere appreciation for one particular business in Grove Hill, Alabama. That business being Clarke County Animal Hospital. Our names are Michael Huseby, Cheri Holley and Cinnamon which is our family's bulldog. Our story starts out Mo...
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Pictures From The Past
     Last week's terrible tornadoes that caused much damage in Enterprise and Miller's Ferry prompted a reminder of another terrible storm- the March 21, 1913 "cyclone" that destroyed Lower Peach Tree. Twenty-eight people were killed and many homes and businesses destroyed. This picture must have been ma...
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From Our Files
      90 years ago Rodgers Telephone Exchange of Grove Hill "A movement is on foot to secure a rural route beginning here and serving the territory of Clarkesville, Chilton and Peacock…The proposed route is badly needed, particularly by the people of the Clarkesville neighborhood, who are at pres...
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Guest Columist
Let the sun shine!
Jerry Tidwell
      A week of Thanksgiving is coming up. No, it's not November. It's March 11-17. That is when we give thanks that we live in a society where the people are presumed to be wise enough to govern themselves.
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Inside the Statehouse
Riley had ducks in a row
Steve Flowers
      Gov. Riley's Special Session called last week to pass incentives to attract a major industry to our state was very successful. It went smoothly with a minimum five-day session that resulted in the necessary legislation to place us in a position to land one of the largest industrial prospects in the...
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Through The Past
Motivation strikes on a February morning
Joyce B urrage
      Walking out of Clarke County High School into retirement on Jan. 19, 1996, I had no clue as to the adventures awaiting me. In February of that year, my first grandson Braxton was born and that within itself could be synonymous with the word, "adventure." Yet, many innumerable adventures were loomin...
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