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December 3, 2008
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Garden spot at Hayden Primary
The cloverleaf-shaped structure in the background is the new butterfly garden at Hayden Primary School. The project is the most recent addition to a three-year, $500,000 makeover of school grounds that involved parents, teachers, and the community. More...
Oneonta looks at personnel and services
by Jim Kilgore

Meeting briefly in the holiday week, the Oneonta City Council handled several personnel matters. Councilmen authorized one volunteer and hired two part-time firefighters. Speaking as the coordinator for the department, Hal Buckelew recommended the acceptance of Marion Dobbs and employment of Jonat... More...

A teenage epiphany...
How long do you have to go to school to get a job good enough to buy a Corvette?
by Ron Gholson

We used to drive by a certain used car lot fairly often a couple of years ago - my 14-year-old son and I. Right on the corner where we turned for home, the dealer had provocatively parked a glittering blue Corvette convertible, early - to mid- '60s vintage. More...

 News
•The Old Oak Tree
Counseling service for veterans and their families
No one can be exposed to war and combat without being deeply changed. Self-confidence, maturity, and pride may be increased. On the other hand one may experience distancing from family members, feelings of alienation, difficulties on the job, decreased emotional control. More...
•Reader writes
•Museum has much of interest
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 Columns
•Alabama Scene
People have a right to see public records
The people of Alabama have a right under state law to know whether prison guards or inmates beat a prisoner to death. Gov. Bob Riley and his prison commissioner Richard Allen are refusing to turn over prison records on the death of convicted murderer Farron Barksdale, even after a Montgomery circu... More...
•Clearly Speaking
•From the Archives
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 People
•PEOPLEBRIEFS
GEARLD GARNER was named Pinellas (Fla)/Gateway Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Jan 5, 2008. He also received the Lifetime City Ambassador Award presented by the city council. Garner grew up in Holly Springs with his brothers James Garner of Oneonta and Ken Garner of Orlando, Fla. He gradua... More...
•Life in the real world good teaching tool
•Birthday
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 Faith
•THE BIBLE SPEAKS
A revoluntionary named 'Mary'
Background Scripture: Luke 1:26-38, 46-55. Devotional Reading: 1 Samuel 2:1-10. One of the pitfalls into which we may stumble is the habit of transforming significant witnesses to Christ into what we want them to be, rather than as what the scriptures present them to be. This is particularly t... More...
•FAITH MATTERS
•CHURCHBRIEFS
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 Obituaries
•OBITUARIES
EARNESTEEN WALLACE BARTLETT, 89, of Snead, died Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at Golden Living Center, Oneonta. The Blount native was the daughter of the late Albert Arthur and Eula Pearl Green Wallace. She was a retired nurse and a member of High Mound Baptist Church. More...
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 News Briefs
•NEWBRIEFS
BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER will benefit from open houses planned at four locations of members of the Blount County Antique Dealers Association. Dry Creek Antiques in Cleveland, Pat's Antiques on U.S. 231 North, Rosa's Gifts in Rosa, and Nickel's Place Antiques on county road 36 behind Lamb St... More...
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