Measuring Stick Although not quite fully engaged, you can hear the grinding of gears as springtime attempts to engage. It's time to evaluate where we stand and pull ourselves up by …
This stent of warmer weather has been a welcome site for us in Jackson County. It makes you long for springtime and the sounds and sites that come with it. Spring means Little League …
The legislature is more than halfway through the 2025 Regular Session, and members have been busy attending committee meetings and passing important legislation. As February came to a close, the …
Arts & Leisure: Shooting Sports (IDPA) Not long after Col. Jeff Cooper's cut up ID Card No. 1 arrived at IPSC World Headquarters, famed Arkansas gunsmith Bill Wilson in association with …
(FREE ACCESS - NOT PAYWALLED) A look in any physical print news or a click of online will reveal people heated over two things currently: egg prices and DOGE. I, too, bemoan the …
A Return to Normalcy? By Joshua D. Clarke Donald Trump’s return to office was heralded as a “return to normalcy” by a local opinion columnist. I thought it best to wait a full month …
(FREE CONTENT - NOT PAYWALLED I'm going to go visit Brother's school. That is, it will be my school too. It is Tyner school. My Granny's sister, Aunt Mattie Rader used to teach there, and …
(FREE ACCESS - NOT PAYWALLED) Some mornings I wake up and it’s fifty years ago in my mind. I woke up one morning last week thinking, “Hope it’s warmer today. Mommy said we were going …
Good Morning! One thing about living in Kentucky is no matter what kind of weather you like, you will more than likely get to experience it living here. Of course, nobody likes flash …
Arts & Leisure: Shooting Sports (SASS) Sometime in the early 1990s, I related to my cousin Ralph Marcum that out West, there was a new shooting competition in which contestants shot …
(Free Content - Not Paywalled) My grandpa planted by the moon – not moonlight mind you but the signs and phases of the moon. He explained it all to me – Taurus or Capricorn for root …
(Free Access column - No Paywall) Moores Creek in the winter of 1940-41 was a pretty muddy place. The dirt roads well worn from people, mules, wagons and horses in the summer became rutted …
(Free Content - Not Paywalled) As I roll into another tax season and sort through papers and receipts, the question is asked indirectly regarding what this piece of ground I live on is worth. …
Arts & Leisure: Shooting Sports (USPSA) Sometime in the early 1990s Col. Jeff Cooper, founder and first president of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), famously cut …
The original J Frame Smith & Wesson was introduced in 1950 at the International Association Chiefs of Police convention. The name of the scaled up I Frame was to be voted on at the convention and …
It’s that miraculous time of the year when the sky offers a buffet of weather to choose from, the peeper frogs are tricked into thinking the current mild spell is an actual introduction to Spring, …
1940 Named Referral Agent At a meeting of the Fiscal Couret Monday Miss Burnam Abner, of Morrill, was named Referral Agent of Jackson County at a salary of 75.00 per month. Miss Jessie …
Hello all! I hope everyone has had a good week. I keep hearing my late cat (Mister Puss) playing in his room and even a meow on occasion. I understand that I’m only hearing what I’m …
Some of you are probably old enough to remember Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, which ran on TV back in the dark ages. One of Tommy’s talents was his skill with a yoyo. He could make one …
Counties, as political subdivisions of the state, are tasked with carrying out essential state functions at the local level. One of these critical functions is operating county jails. …