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Come spend an early fall day in the country at the 23rd annual White Oak Craft Fair scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 8 an 9. The White Oak Craft Fair returns for its 23rd year, offering something of interest for everybody who delights in items and products that are individually designed [...]
“Education is the process of creating sound mind in a sound body.” –Aristotle In a frank discussion, Dr. LaDonna McFall shared some of her philosophy of education and her approach as she takes over as the new Director of Schools for Coffee County. Dr. McFall focuses on individual students, teachers, parents, and people in the [...]
On Thursday the United Nations Security Council began voting on whether to increase sanctions on Syria while adding the ‘threat’ of military intervention in response to the crisis that has taken over the country and left more than 14,000 (almost entirely civilians) dead. More than four months ago President Bashar al-Assad began a brutal crackdown [...]
The furor that erupted this week over the shooting of a dog by a Coffee County Animal Control officer has received now more attention regionally and locally than any big buzz story in recent memory has garnered.
SSome time during 1992, a Mitt Romney led (Wolf) Bain Capital acquired American Pad & Paper, or Ampad, from Mead Corp. At that time Ampads total debt was $11 million. The scheme was a “roll-up strategy” in which a firm buys up similar companies in the same industry in order to expand revenues and cut [...]
Should the federal government be able to make you buy broccoli? That was the question that Justice Antonin Scalia asked the Obama administration’s lawyer during the recent spectacle of the ‘oral arguments’ surrounding the so-called ‘individual mandate’ provision of our fledgling Affordable Care Act. Watching with bated breath were the usual cast of financially motivated [...]
tsi staff In the March 24 edition of The Saturday Independent, we penned a story that revealed a pattern of misuse of Manchester City equipment and county inmates by Manchester City elected officials and police officers. It was surface scratch on a less than efficient city hall that has allowed a police department to act [...]
The story that this newspaper printed last week has, in the words of one of our loyal Hillsboro readers, “stirred the pot” with an eye-opening story about the apparent misuse of public equipment and county inmate trustees who were under the care of the City of Manchester. Nashville’s WSMV-TV picked up on our story, and [...]
One of the most revered journalists of all time, Fareed Zakaria. has, from time-to-time produced a compelling piece will capture people’s attention for several days. Fareed has a knack for writing about issues we face as everyday Americans. A way of stepping into the shoes of what seems to be every type of experience one [...]
The colorful use of language by local elected officials is an issue that refuses to die. The latest installment in his comedy of errors involves the Coffee County Jail Review Committee and its chairman, Chris Bird. Toward the end of a seemingly mundane meeting, commissioner Mark Kelly asked chairman Bird if he would email him a copy of preliminary jail plans for review. After this [...]
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