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Serve a variety of chicken dishes for family, offering hospitality

By Ann Cipperly As I was looking through recipes this week, I kept coming back to chicken recipes since most people always seem to be looking for new ways to prepare this main dish staple. Chicken is versatile and can be cooked a variety of ways, as well as used in...

The Lonely Road of Sorrow

By Walter Albritton When you are traveling the lonely road of sorrow, you don’t need to have someone tell you, “I know how you feel.” Ironically, what you need most is someone who listens compassionately while you share how you feel. That’s a lesson I have learned in...

The Georgia Story

By Sean Dietrich DEAR SEAN: Do you ever write anything not about gooey, syrupy love? Thanks, MARK-IN-ATLANTA DEAR MARK: I have a story for you. It starts with a woman who pulled her Chevy Blazer alongside an ordinary Georgia gas pump. There, she noticed a teenage girl...

Exploring and Keeping God’s World

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. God’s world in the spring offers so many nature lessons for young children in listening, seeing, smelling and feeling. We will celebrate Arbor Day on April 30, Earth...

2015- that was the year it was

2015 will it be remembered as the year that gave us the “Man Bun” – a male fashion statement in the tradition of the Ducktail and the Mullet.? Or...

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How sweet the sound

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found. I was blind, but now, I see. I really do. I’ve had...

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The Wotus Rule controversy

Rain-filled depressions, also called small isolated wetlands, and perennial streams, streams that may have no surface flow during extreme droughts,...

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Hubbard trial moves into 2016

A good many of the news stories that were the most noteworthy events of 2015 will continue into this new year of 2016 and may repeat as the major...

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Reminiscing again

Some of you have heard some of this before, but some of you haven’t, so bear with me. We are going to do some high class remembering. Three years...

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