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Review: The airplane as an angel of death
By Bob Tedder • One hundred years have now passed since the guns of World War One fell silent in November 1918. The five new angels of death – machine guns, tanks, chemical weapons, submarines and airplanes – making their ominous appearance on the battlefields of...
A day in the life of a chamber director
By Mark Scott, director, Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • What does the leader of your chamber of commerce do? A typical day might go something like this ... Get information together to mail to a fifth-grade student from Wake County assigned to learn about...
Guest column: Great things happening at local school
Editor’s note: The author, Sandra Miller, lives in Mt. Gilead and is on the Montgomery County Schools Board of Education. As the Mount Gilead representative on the Montgomery County Schools Board of Education, I anxiously awaited the presentation on the “Future of...
Review: Add ‘Devil’s Dictionary’ to your bucket list
Bob Tedder • If you don’t have “read a dictionary” on your bucket list I will suggest you add the task and spend some time with Ambrose Bierce's “The Devil’s Dictionary.” Before examining the review copy – a 2002 University of Georgia Press expanded edition...
Hiring fair is tomorrow
By Mark Scott, director, Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Details are in on the hiring fair tomorrow (March 14) at Montgomery Community College’s Troy campus, featuring agencies looking for workers in education, health care, law enforcement, food preparation...
Schools bring added layer of guilt for moms
Editor’s note: The author, Brooke McIntosh Crump, is a working mom in Mt. Gilead. Y’all know Mt. Gilead loves a good meeting and this week, we’ve been meeting in the name of education. On March 3, I attended Professor Ted Shaw’s talk on Julius Chambers. For those of...
The 411 on new school: Lake retirees aren’t enough
Photo: MCC President Chad Bledsoe chats with Montgomery County Schools board member Sandra Miller on Monday night, while MCS Superintendent Dale Ellis looks on. By Kyle Poplin • “It’s all about economic development.” That’s what Dale Ellis, superintendent of...
Letters to the editor: Downtown traffic solutions
The issue: Several downtown merchants are worried about the speed of traffic downtown. Last week, we talked about the idea of turning the stoplight at Ingram and Main streets into a four-way stop, as a way to “calm” traffic. That drew the responses below. Express your...
Review: How to eat kudzu. As if.
By Bob Tedder • My Grandfather Tedder had sagacious advice for those wanting to grow kudzu. Plough a 40-acre field, take a kudzu clipping to the exact center of the area, drop the cutting and then run as fast as you can. James Dickey had a more polished but equally...
You don’t have to tell ‘whoppers’ to get folks to relocate to MoCo
By Mark Scott, director, Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • How would you describe Montgomery County if you were trying to attract managers and workers to this area? In real estate the old saying is: location, location, location. We’re midway between Atlanta...
Review: Book on Philly truly a ‘ta-da’
By Bob Tedder • Not being a well-traveled tourist, I have at best a schoolboy's knowledge of Philadelphia. So I faced a quandary when presented with Professor Kenneth Finkel’s book “Insight Philadelphia.” Did I care enough about this relatively unknown and distant...
The Antagonist of the American Dream
Welcome to 'With Conviction,' a new regular column by working mom Brooke McIntosh Crump. I recently saw a blog being shared across my timeline entitled, “What if all I want for my kids is an ordinary life?” The blogger mentions that her son wants to score more points...