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Showing calves

by | Mar 11, 2016 | Column

When the subject of Legion Field comes up, the responses are usually unflattering, to put it gently. I, on the other hand, have a warm spot in my heart for the old arena, and not just about football. Here’s why. When I was in the tenth grade, we had an ag teacher who...

Purged history is bad history

by | Mar 11, 2016 | Column

You may have read about “The Great Renaming Craze of 2015.” All over this land of ours people are demanding that the names of flawed public figures be removed from the buildings and streets and such, places that were named by people who didn’t know the honoree was...

The fate of Southern Union

by | Mar 11, 2016 | Community

Town Hall meeting held March 8 By Anna-Claire Terry Staff Reporter Concerned citizens, students and alumni packed out the Southern Room at Southern Union State Community College to voice concerns about the upcoming merger with Central Alabama and Chattahoochee Valley...

Alabama now has Ava’s Law

by | Mar 11, 2016 | Community, Politics

By Fred Woods Editor Ava Zapata, a four-year-old Lee County native died on May 2012 as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. These kinds of incidents usually make lurid newspaper headlines for a couple of days and are then quickly...