Like most Southerners growing up, my father taught my sister and me how to shoot a rifle. Actually, he tried to teach us how to shoot.
When visiting my grandmother’s farm, …
Guns: The good, the bad and the ugly
Teacher role models: Job, Gen. MacArthur and dad
Recently I ran across a letter my dad wrote to me in April 1973. I was graduating from UT and had been offered a position teaching 7th grade language arts …
Smooth transition to Tennova Family Y
The ownership transition to the new Tennova Family Y has been a textbook “how-to” that will pay dividends to the health and wellbeing of residents of Powell and Halls for …
A tale of two governors
In the movie “As Good as it Gets,” Jack Nicholson says he wants “to be a better person.” For some time now I have been trying to do just that. …
PBPA to hear about Powell’s new Y
The Powell Business & Professional Association will meet today (01/10/23) at Jubilee Banquet Facility, Callahan Road, at noon. Jubilee Center’s lunch is $16 whether individuals eat or not because seating …
Tennova Family Y is open for business
The former Tennova Health & Fitness Center, 7540 Dannaher Dr. off Emory Road near the hospital, has reopened as Tennova Family Y. It is now managed by the YMCA of …
Services Saturday in Powell for Joy West
Joy Grayson West, 84, passed away Dec. 22, 2022, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother with a beautiful spirit of love …
Does anyone ever make money selling trees?
For a few years we grew Norway Spruce Christmas trees on our farm. In the summer I’d mow around them and in the fall, Dan would prune them. After eight …