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Justin Glaze
Column by Justin Glaze: Surgical treatment of arthritis
Last week we discussed one of the most popular diseases that people in the United States suffer from: Arthritis. While there are different types of arthritis that have different causes, the inflamm...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heckler & Koch Mark 23 pistol
Column by Roger Sherrill: Heckler & Koch Mark 23
This week we will be looking at the Mark 23 H & K pistol. When I first looked at this pistol, I thought, man what a beast. This pistol is a handful, nothing puny here. I did not know this pistol ev...
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Holding the knife is Theo (Ted) Phillips, later Dr. J. Theodore Phillips, president of Brewton-Parker College.
Column by Joe Phillips: What’s that?
After working the evening shift as an aircraft mechanic, Reggie drove to a small strip where he kept a small airplane being rebuilt. Re-attaching an inspection port, he was shocked when a bright li...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dwight Watt
Column by Dwight Watt: How old is the internet?
Last week the World Wide Web on April 30, 2013 celebrated its twentieth birthday. Happy Birthday www! The internet was created much earlier back in August 1969. The world wide web (which is where ...
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pam Rasmussen
Column by Pam Rasmussen: Vocational rehabilitation services
I want to tell you about the “best kept secret” around…vocational rehabilitation. Not everyone knows we have an Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (Voc Rehab) located right here in LaFayette. They...
May 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kaye Ella Steadman
Column by Kaye Ella Steadman: She has a name
In another state, in another city, on another corner of another street there stands a lone figure. I will say only that the lone figure is female. She is a street vendor, some call them peddlers. S...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Norman Edwards: Kudzu bugs appearing
Over the past week, we have spoken with several local residents who are starting to see large numbers of Kudzu bugs around their homes. This is a fairly new insect pest that had not been found in W...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Justin Glaze
Column by Justin Glaze: Arthritis treatment
This week I'd like to discuss what has been described as the most common chronic illness in all of America. This condition affects millions, and causes the US economy billions each year both in med...
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Roger Sherrill: Most dangerous activity
by Roger Sherrill
May 07, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
With the attack on firearms and the second amendment of the constitution let’s look at just what causes the majority of deaths in this country. Also facts concerning deaths caused by guns. Let’s lo...
Column by Dick Yarbrough: LaGrange college senior triumphs over life-altering experience
by Dick Yarbrough
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
This is the story of courage. This is a story of tenacity. This is the story of Hill Daniel. Daniel, a 21-year-old senior at LaGrange College, will be graduating next week with a degree in psycholo...
Column by Norman Edwards: Cattle management workshop – May 28
by Norman Edwards
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A beef cattle reproductive management workshop is scheduled to be held in Calhoun, Ga., May 28. It will be conducted at the experiment station livestock pavilion off Hwy 53 spur and begin with regi...
Column by Roger Sherrill: Welcome back
by Roger Sherrill
May 01, 2013 | 5 5 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
First, I would like to say that I have missed writing our column. My family went through an illness that needed my attention. I know our country has been shocked down to its very core. It is time t...
Column by Joe Phillips: Waste of time
by Joe Phillips
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
I watched a commercial for a “hair product,” then came another, and another. Hair stuff is big business. There are claims to make hair look bigger, shiny, change the color, make it. Huh? Vitamins? ...
Column by Dick Yarbrough: GPB deals with an unhappy big bird and talking frogs
by Dick Yarbrough
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
RING! RING! “Hello, this is Teya Ryan, president of Georgia Public Broadcasting. I am calling to ask you to consider a donation to GPB. If you donate $250, we will send you a talking frog.” KNOCK! ...
Column by Joanna Jackson: Quick tips to attract more buyers when selling
by Joanna Jackson
Apr 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are a seller looking to sell your home, the following are a few quick tips to hopefully attract more buyers: Buff up curb appeal. This is a priority. Many buyers do a drive-by before decidin...
Column by Dwight Watt: How do I copy my pictures from my computer to a CD or DVD?
by Dwight Watt
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
You can just copy the pictures from the hard drive (or other drive) on your computer using one of a couple ways. Windows usually has more than one way to do things. The first is to open the folder...

MORE THAN a quarter of Virginia’s electorate considers itself Republican, which translates to almost 1 million voters. Of that number, about 8,000 — less than 1 percent — showed up at the party’s convention in Richmond over the weekend to choose the GOP candidates in this November’s races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

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Mon May 20 19:33:18 UTC 2013

IN THE DAYS of the Soviet Union, street maps of Moscow did not exist for most citizens, or they were deliberately misleading. In fact, the very best Moscow map was created by the CIA, and it was treasured by diplomats, journalists and spies. It was a spiral-bound wonder that could rescue you from almost any dead end.

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Mon May 20 19:32:44 UTC 2013

CONGRESS HAS ONLY begun working on student loans this year, and already it’s going better than last year’s debacle.

Election-year politics drove Congress and the White House to endorse a bumper-sticker policy — keep loan rates from doubling! — instead of looking at the substance. Lawmakers rushed to extend a 3.4 percent rate on certain new loans instead of allowing the rate to revert back to 6.8 percent. That doesn’t sound bad to borrowers, but it reflects the weird fact that those loan rates aren’t pegged to anything real, just to the whims of Congress, which inevitably uses student loans as political playthings.

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