Michael J. Brooks | Guest Columnist It was a story from “The New York Post” last spring that I pondered and saved. The headline proclaimed, “City removes last-standing public payphone from NYC street.” The accompanying picture showed the removal of a telephone counter, not the old-fashioned telephone booth in which Superman changed clothes. It used…
I normally don’t use this space for writing book reviews, but there is one that has really been working on my heart lately: “The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness” by Timothy Keller. It’s short enough to read in about an hour or two. Because of this book, I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection and trying…
Holmes County High School Drama Department will present the musical “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” on Thursday, Feb. 23; Friday, Feb. 24; Saturday, Feb. 25; Monday, Feb. 27; and Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the HCHS Auditorium. Showtime is 7 p.m. each night. Doors open at 6. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller virtually invented rock ‘n’ roll, and…
We asked our readers to send the stories of how they met their significant others in honor of Valentine’s Day. Here are their submissions. A mixtape love story Like so many teens growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, we created mixtapes. We made them for our friends, crushes or perspective boy/girlfriends. Mixtapes were often…
Cpl. Alisha Smith was selected as Holmes County High School JROTC’s Cadet of the Month for January. Smith is a member of the 6th Platoon who excels and is always looking for ways to help other people, according to 1st Sgt. Randy Burlew. Smith sees the JROTC program as a good place for people to…
On January 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. Murderous Nazi terror targeted millions for reasons of biology, nationality, or political ideology. But few people know that the Nazis’ victims included thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered for their Christian faith. Jehovah’s Witnesses, also…
When their 5-year-old son came home from school with a bloody lip and scraped face, Daniel and Jessica discovered it was not just an innocent playground accident. Their child was being bullied. As millions of children head back to school this year, more than one in five of them will have a similar experience, according…
More than a decade after the last Bay Point Billfish Tournament, a new Blue Marlin tournament is coming back to the newly rebuilt docks at Point South Marina at Bay Point. A local group of four is spearheading the charge to put together The Bay Point Billfish Open, a weeklong dock party and fishing tournament…
Two people died in a structure fire off Beaver Dam Road overnight in Esto. Holmes County Sheriff John Tate said the call came in at 8:15 Thursday morning from a neighbor who had driven past the property and saw that a home had completely burned the night before. Tate said two occupants in the block…
An Atlanta man is behind bars after he robbed a liquor store while brandishing a handgun Jan. 7. Deputies and investigators with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office responded to State Line Liquors on Highway 179A in reference to an armed robbery. Video surveillance showed a suspect entering the store wearing a mask, brandishing a firearm…
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