OUR VIEW
Make sure you are prepared for storms
      The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just passed, and if history is any guide, we're just now entering the height of hurricane season. It also wasn't that long ago that Thomasville, well inland felt the wrath of Hurricane Ivan.
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Labor's still a big part of Alabama
By Steve Flowers
      Alabama experienced the wrenching throes of the Great Depression like the rest of the nation. There were tragic stories of devastation that paralleled those illuminated in the classic novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." On the other hand, I have heard many old timers who lived during the Depression say ...
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From the Editor's Desk
They need to see it
Arthur McLean
      I've been told that disaster tours of New Orleans now outnumber the swamp tours once so popular before Hurricane Katrina hit two years ago. When I first heard this, I was a little disturbed. But I'm not condemning everyone. I drove over a thousand miles to be in New York a month after Sept. 11, ...
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DARE needs your help
      Dear Editor: Hello, my name is Officer John Thornton. I'm the DARE officer at Thomasville City Schools. The DARE program is for kindergarten through fifth grades. In the DARE program I teach the children safety, helpful and harmful uses of medicines and drugs and the importance of obeying the la...
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Vote was biggest mistake
      Dear Editor: When the news came about Thomasville being voted into being wet, I was dismayed. Surely we are living in a time when holiness and righteousness has to take a back seat to sin. And what makes it worse, even the mayor agrees to turn Thomasville into a sinful city. Kinda makes this pre...
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Afterthoughts
Ready or not, here I come
Anne Williamson
      Iremember as a teenager reading the book Gone With The Wind. I had a hard time struggling through those first few chapters, but the deeper I got into it, and the more the plot thickened, I just couldn't put it down. When it aired on TV, I stayed glued to the screen. We didn't have cable then, onl...
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