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Donuts with Dads at Sneads High
Sneads High School’s Donuts With Dads event was part of the Florida Department of Education’s “Dads, Take Your Child to School Day,” designed to encourage men to get involved and to spotlight the indispensable role dads play in educating young people.
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Chattahoochee Final Fridays, September 31
A lively crowd turned out for Chattahoochee Main Street’s Final Fridays event last week in downtown Chattahoochee. The event featured food, arts-and-crafts vendors, a Kids’ Zone and Southern rock-and-roll performed by Three Billy Goats Gruff.
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The Old Person Survey
I often wonder how my name gets on certain e-mail lists. For instance, I get about 25 job offers each day. Many of them are medical related, but some are for truck drivers or maintenance people. Who believes I’m qualified for such jobs? Last week I got an invitation for a forum on gambling. I…
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Vengeance Valley, Chattahoochee 1951
Vengeance Vally was showing in 1951 when a photographer photographed downtown Chattachoochee, including the theater where the movie title and its star, Burt Lancaster, were emblazoned across the marquee. The western film was based on a novel by Luke Short and also stars Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, John Ireland and Sally Forest in a classic…
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What’s old is new again.
The Chattahoochee News-Herald & Sneads Sentinel is a new newspaper from a publisher with a long history in Sneads and Chattahoochee news. It is published by Priority News, Inc., which also publishes The Herald, Gadsden County’s largest single-issue newspaper, which was started in 1947. The Chattachoochee News-Herald & Sneads Sentinel is a new voice in…
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Citizens Bill of Rights, land use on November ballot
In the November general election, Gadsden County residents will have a chance to weigh in on two issues that have long divided the local Board of County Commissioners and the public: the Citizens’ Bill of Rights and residential development on private land. At the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners meeting last Tuesday, commissioners voted 3-1…
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Man Bites Dog
In the newspaper business, reporters and columnists write stories. Editors write headlines. (Publishers write checks). At magazines, the work flow is similar. Even though magazine writers are sometimes called “contributing editors,” the headlines are still written by a real editor – a person responsible for editing what other people write. In the television news business,…
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Flashback – On the way to fortune and fame
(State Archives of Florida) Jackie Dodson of Chattahoochee boarding a plane with his mother, left, at Dale Mabry Field in Tallahassee. Mrs. W.H. Mayo, wife of Cairo Rotary Club President W.H. Mayo, sees them off. Dodson was bound for New York, where he competed in the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. He was sponsored by the…