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The Hue And Cry
By: John Fleming
Former full-time Chairman of the Conecuh County Commission, and still active in community affairs, John Fleming sheds light on the day-to-day situations we all face in our lives. His stories help guide us through Life with a gentle hand and a good sense of humor.





Southern Shooter
By: Frank Higginbotham
Firearms safety and information with retired Alabama State Trooper, Frank Higginbotham. Frank served the public as a road trooper, DOT enforcement officer, with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, as a member of the Alabama Department of Public Safety Tactical Operations Team, and was a firearms instructor at the Alabama State Trooper Academy.





STAR GAZER
By: Jack Horkheimer
For the night sky enthusiast in all of us, we have STAR GAZER from Jack Horkheimer of Public Broadcasting's WPBT 2, Miami, and the Miami Science Museum. Mr. Horkheimer's articles coincide with his weekly PBS broadcasts.

Other Features Include:

Photos and details of Alabama's Missing Persons as listed with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation; and Newspaper Fun - a full page of games and pictures for coloring to help keep the kids busy.

Greetings From The Publisher

[Editor's Note: I apologize for the late update to our web site this month. Debbie's mother passed away June 10th and our efforts have been devoted to family matters.]

By now most of us probably take hurricane predictions for granted. They seem wrong more times than they’re right. So why do anything until a hurricane actually threatens our area?

Here’s why. Hurricane Ivan taught us a lesson - and Hurricane Katrina taught Washington, and everyone else, something too. You can’t depend on the government.

Start preparing now. Gather a little here - and a little there - and when a hurricane does threaten, you won’t be caught up in the chaos of everyone else’s panic to buy food, water and batteries.

By the way, you may as well figure gasoline will again be expensive, so if you know you will have to evacuate go ahead and buy an extra 5 gallon can, and stash about 10 bucks a week from your paycheck to fill up the tank.

I think we all know hurricane predictions are a crap shoot (take that any way you want to) and our weather models mean about as much as reading chicken bones.

Be smart and count on unpredictability. Anything can happen. We might breeze through another year of little to no activity - or we could all be reciting the Greek alphabet come November.

Be smart. Be prepared. Be safe.

Jim Allen
Owner/Publisher