2010-10-07

‘Fern Queen’ is Grove Hill’s Citizen of Year for 2010




If you’ve ever had an Xray or a mammogram done at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital, or bought a fern from the Southern Magnolia Study Club, chances are you’ve dealt with Phyllis Barnes and benefited from her laughter and her concern. Phyllis Bradford Barnes is the Grove Hill Civitan Club’s Citizen of the Year for 2010. “I’m very, very honored. I […]

Calendar



Bedwell Reunion will be Saturday, Oct. 9 at W.V. Bedwell’s in Sandflat. Come bring a covered dish and a lawn chair and enjoy the day. Call W.V. Bedwell at 334-636-2696 for more information. Jackson Baseball/Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, Oct. 9 at Jackson Links. It is a two person scramble with cash payouts for three flights. To sign up […]

PARTYING IN THE CEMETERY



Someone had a party in the Grove Hill Cemetery Monday night but must have left in a hurry. In addition to two old lawn chairs, empty soda bottles whose contents apparently had been dumped on a tombstone and spray paint cans that had been used to spray strange-looking, satanic someone suggested, markings on a pecan tree, Officer Woodie Coats found […]

Amos finds girl




Ol’ Red the bloodhound is dead but in his place is Amos, whose daddy was called Famous Amos. Amos the son is now Famous Amos in the Toddtown community where he found a missing girl Tuesday night. Chief Deputy Ronald Robinson said the sheriff’s department received a report of the missing 9-yearold around 6 p.m. Apparently, the child had run […]

Grove Hill annexation debate continues




The Grove Hill mayor and one council member told annexation proponents they were all for it Monday night. Other council members sat silently as the matter was discussed. In the end Mayor Jerry Newton said what he has said before; that the town would work on it. However, he also said, “We’d like to annex in all directions but we […]

‘A wonderful community event’



Dear Editor, A wonderful community event took place in Grove Hill on Sept. 23, 2010. Over 100 families were recipients of 5,000 pounds of free food. This food distribution was headed up by the Grove Hill Area Chamber of Commerce which partnered with the Bay Area Food Bank, Clarke County Department of Human Resources, and Grove Hill Baptist Church. For […]

Editor’s Notes

Presidential politics firey hot in 1860

The United States will observe—celebrate just isn’t the word—the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the Civil War in 2011. The war started April 12th,1861 and would “officially” end April 9th, 1865—although shooting continued until June. The Clarke County Democrat was five years old when the Civil War started. The newspaper was published throughout the war, except for a few weeks […]

Inside the Statehouse

More and more Republican

In 1876 when the southern states wrestled free of the shackles of Reconstruction, one thing was certain. The South would not vote for any Republican. The harsh retribution bestowed on the southerners by the radical Republican Reconstruction dominance and occupation of the former confederate states was so severe that a fierce hatred was ingrained into the southern psyche that would […]

Congress Reports

Oil well permanently capped!

On September 18, BP engineers permanently sealed the broken mile-deep oil well that has bedeviled our world for far too long. This milestone came three weeks after BP handed over its claims processing operations to an independent overseer. While significant, these long-anticipated developments have not fully lifted the public’s anxiety about what may still lie beneath the Gulf, nor have […]