Extreme Makeover
Letters to the Editor
      Dear Editor, Grove Hill Businesses and property owners probably don't hear it often enough - Thanks for keeping our town going! Your persistence with your Grove Hill business is greatly appreciated. Times are tough these days, and keeping a business open is not always easy.
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Sweet Olive memories
      Dear Editor, I am an avid reader of Dora Fleming's gardening column in The Clarke County Democrat, and the one discussing "Tea Olive" brought back many happy memories of my mother and my grandmother. I grew up many years ago in Grove Hill as a member of the Brady family. My dad, W. C.
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Toppling the Godfather
Inside the Statehouse
Steve Flowers
      The embezzlement, nepotism and thievery perpetrated within the Junior College System is beginning to unravel with federal indictments. This corruption was so pervasive that dozens of officials will eventually go before federal juries for judgment. The massive scandal will be remembered as one of...
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Split the difference and leave time alone
Editor's Notes
Jim Cox
      Daylight Saving Time is here again. (And yes, the proper term is "Saving," even though we all say "Savings.) It always takes me a few days to readjust from either "springing forward" or "falling back." At least now the clock in my SUV is correct. I never can figure out how to reset the dang thi...
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Perfect landing in Mobile
Congress Reports
      Just over a week ago, the Air Force announced it chose the Northrop Grumman/ EADS team to build the Air Force's KC- 45A Aerial Refueling Tanker - a tanker that will be assembled in Mobile. After the most rigorous, fair and transparent acquisition process in the history of the U.S.
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From Our Files
      20 years ago The Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee met. District 1 County Commissioner Clarence Watters paid his qualifying fee to run for probate judge. Incumbent PJ Fred Huggins had announced his retirement. Wayne Brunson and Sid Armistead, circuit clerk candidates, were present. Cir...
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