by Mary Dyer | Oct 21, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Whenever I go shopping, I am fascinated by how every other shopper seems to have an invisible bubble wrapped around them. They are so focused on their shopping list that it is all they can manage to see. They pass by intently and quietly, with only the squeaky wheel...
by Rebecca Kennedy | Jul 15, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
It happened so quickly and without amplification that I didn’t catch what was said. All I knew was that the look on President Obama’s face told me whatever was shouted at him from the Republican side of the aisle was not an affirmation. President Obama’s speech to a...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 6, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The travel gods decided this husband-and-wife duo needed to spend more time together. Returning from Atlanta, where Missy and I attended the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, the clouds opened up in Saint Louis and a hailstorm grounded our plane,...
by Michael Chancellor | May 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
My wife, Anna, graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1969. At the time, the community was called Alta Loma, Texas, but now is Santa Fe City. Five years ago, on Thursday, May 19, 2018, a shooter killed 10 people and injured 13 at Santa Fe High School. Five years...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 25, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Community respect for Roy McCall was obvious in Pam’s Restaurant on the edge of Hartsville, South Carolina. Warm greetings of “Hi, Mr. Roy” came from staff and patrons who served and consumed “countrified” cuisine. The expansive farming land in and around his hometown...
