2007: a year of potential for T'ville
      In many ways, 2007 will begin the same way as 2006 did in Thomasville: with growth on the horizon and big questions waiting for answers. Last year at this time, Thomasville was still feeling good about landing the Louisiana-Pacific plant and looking forward to a boom in residential housing.
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From the Editor's Desk
Into the great unknown
Arthur McLean
      If there's one thing we humans are particularly bad at, it's predicting the future. Heck, Las Vegas is an entire city built on that very shortcoming. Even the stock market, with all of its research data is still an exercise in predicting the future.
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Alabama Scene
Alabama's biggest newsmakers
Bob Ingram
      Ithink it is required that at the end of the year and the beginning of another that those of us in my trade take a look back at the 12 months past…list the top stories…the off-beat stories…and yes, the biggest newsmakers of the year.
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
Proving you were born
The late Earl Tucker
      January 9, 1957 Afriend from Prichard, Alabama has asked me to write about the birth certificate problem facing so many of our older people as they approach retirement age. Back when they were born there was no bureau of vital statistics. There was a bureau, alright, but it was where they put the w...
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HOW TO GET SOMETHING IN THE PAPER
      The Thomasville Times is happy to publish news items for the public, most of which are free-of-charge. Anything brought to the paper should be accompanied by the name of a contact person and phone number, preferably written on the submission itself.
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DEAR DIANE
Drama queen spurs rift at home
By Diane Verhoeven
      DEAR DIANE: Mutual friends of my wife and me, "Jake" and "Laura," were expecting their first child. The doctor was to induce labor on Monday. The previous Friday, Laura sent out a massive number of e-mails "inviting" friends, family, co-workers and lord knows who else to attend the "birthing" of t...
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