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June 10, 2009

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Bloom-'N-Pie Days, June 13-14

When The Blount Countian asked Delois Dunn to pick out her single most spectacular bloom variety for a newspaper photo, she came up with two: her "gaudiest," called "Thin Man," and her "all time favorite," "Omomuki." Guess which is which above. Both will be among the more than 800 varieties of daylilies and half-dozen hydrangea varieties for sale this weekend at the seventh annual Bloom 'N Pies Days, to be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Harold and Delois Dunn's home and daylily nursery on Skyball Road. More...

Commission session juggles controversies, new and old

by Ron Gholson

In setting the agenda at Thursday's work session for its Monday business meeting, the Blount County Commission covered about two dozen routine items more or less uneventfully, then considered two considerably more complicated. One concerns the relatively recent disagreement between the Board of Directors of Palisades Park and the Blount County Quilters Guild over the rent the guild should be required to pay the park for the cottage the county built for the guild in 1997. More...

Drug bust ‘one of the largest in Blount County history’

by Rob Rice

A routine traffic stop in Arab last week led to what local law enforcement has described as one of the the largest drug busts in Blount County history. Officers with the Arab Police Department stopped 47-year-old Pete Collins last week and issued a traffic citation. In the process of issuing the writ, a notebook was discovered in Collins’s vehicle. The contents of the notebook led Arab authorities to contact the Blount County Sheriff’s Department and a search warrant was issued for Collins’s home at 1807 Timmerman Road in the Royal community. More...

•	Council accepts property from Superior Bank

News

•	Ye Olde Soda Shoppe Crew?

No, but close. This is the crew assembled for the grand opening of the new and improved Sip 'n Dip on Ala 75 in the Benchmark shopping strip north of town. From the left are coowner and ribbon-cutter Kelly Hunt, chamber of commerce assistant Aimee Dobbs, coowner and co-ribbon-cutter Robbie McAlpine, chamber of commerce president Charles Carr (delivering an ice-cream cone salute), Jim Murphree with take-out menu, Oneonta city manager Ed Lowe, chamber board member Link Marcum, and Oneonta Mayor Darryl Ray. More...

•	Amnesty offered for outstanding warrants

•	Arrest made in string of local thefts

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Columns

•	molly muses

A view

This abbreviated view isn’t from a sunroom or a deck or a garden but rather through the glass door of my kitchen where I enjoy my breakfast and my reading. Two immense seven bark bushes taken from the woods decades ago are laden with huge white blossoms not nearly as delicate nor intricate as those of their cultured counterparts but heavier and heartier and making a bigger splash. More...

•	Alabama Scene

•	Update from the chamber of commerce

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Letters

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Editorial

Quilts, funds, and fairness

Is anything more thankless than unpaid service on a board that tries to evenhandedly meet conflicting demands of the public and to fairly apportion public funds? Members of the county park board might tell you there isn’t. Palisades Park is one of the best things going for the county. It preserves largely in their natural state wooded acres atop a mountain that affords a breathtaking view. Native plants abound. More...

•	Readers write

•	‘When all hope is found’

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Sports

•	Tawbush, Holmes, and Franks named first-team All-State

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

Appalachian’s Coty Tawbush had an amazing season to help lead the Eagles to the high school baseball playoffs. For his efforts, the senior was named first-team All- State designated hitter in Class 1A by the Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA). Also named to the first team from Blount County was a pair of Susan Moore softball players – Hannah Holmes and Melanie Franks. More...

•	Bryant named All-American

•	DRIVE OUT CANCER GOLF TOURNAMENT

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People

•	Outstanding projects highlight history

Students who entered the county’s first annual history fair produced some outstanding projects, ranging from the evolution of this newspaper The Blount Countian to Civil War battle reenactments and clothing to the devastations brought by bombs in Hiroshima and the Twin Towers. Projects were based on four categories: Blount County history, American history, ancient and modern world history. Blount County Historical Society sponsored the fair, held April 25 and April 26 at Cleveland High School. Winners are listed below by category. More...

•	Dickey -Whitley

•	50th anniversary

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Faith

•	THE BIBLE SPEAKS

Beyond the story’s end

Background Scripture: Exodus 4:10-16, 27-31. Devotional Reading: Proverbs 1:2-33. In my growing-up days, motion pictures always began with a “cast of characters” so that we would know who was who. Today, however, the “cast of characters” is more likely to be listed at the end of the film. There is something to be said for both procedures. More...

•	FAITH MATTERS

•	Church ownership challenged

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Obituaries

•	OBITUARIES

If there appears to be a disagreement among family members about information to appear in an obituary, The Blount Countian reserves the right to decline to publish any of it. The newspaper takes pride in not charging for publishing obituaries except for those of persons without direct connection to this county, in which case persons requesting them will pay for them when they are submitted. More...

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