God’s Great Love

God’s Great Love By Ralphine Major It is often celebrated with cards and candy, special dinners, and red roses. The short month of February brings the much-anticipated Valentine’s Day holiday. Love. Songs and stories have been written about it; movies have been made...

Visiting History in Calhoun and Charleston

Visiting History in Calhoun and Charleston A Day Away By Mike Steely Between Athens and Cleveland, Tennessee, are two small towns that hold a world of history. Whether you’re into Cherokee or Civil War history, the adjoining towns of Calhoun and Charleston are worth a...

What is Split Confinement?

What is Split Confinement? By Jedidiah McKeehan If you are charged with a crime, and you are considering pleading guilty, one of the big questions that you will want answered is how you will have to serve your sentence. Your sentence is your period of punishment for...

Lighting Lives

Lighting Lives By Joe Rector With a snowfall that this area hadn’t seen in a long while and the pouring rains that followed gone, I was feeling good about the warm spell that allowed me to be outside. Then over the weekend, a call came to my wife that darkened even...

Three SEC Championship Seasons to Remember

Three SEC Championship Seasons to Remember By Tom Mattingly The 2024 season marks the 85th anniversary of the 10-1 1939 team, the 55th anniversary of the 9-2 1969 team, and the 35th anniversary of the 11-1 1989 team, champions all. Each of these “Boys of Fall” teams...

Publisher’s Positions

Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Well Done, Mike McMillan Nobody would have been more pleased than Mike McMillan by the send-off he received from friends.  McMillan passed away after a long battle with cancer on January 26.  Congressman Tim Burchett spoke at Mike...