Contributor Columns
Screaming Sheila
By Carolyn L. Primm Sheila would scream, and Sheila would spit She would flop to the ground, and throw a great fit. Neighbors ran out of their homes in alarm, Certain that Sheila had come to great harm. He mother would sigh, and say, “Sheila, please.” While the neighbors retreated with no sympathies. All of…
Read MoreCommission Minutes
Thursday, August 4, 2022 PLACE OF MEETING: Scotland County Courthouse Commission Chambers The meeting was called to order at 8:30 A.M. PRESENT WERE: Presiding Commissioner Eastern District Commissioner, Brent Rockhold Western District Commissioner, David Wiggins was absent County Clerk, Batina Dodge …
Read MoreMoving on to the New Normal: A Dancing Rabbit Update
The changing quality of sunlight and later sunrises and earlier sunsets, all point to the turning of the season toward fall. We are still having hot days, but nights are blissfully cool and I’m sleeping soundly most nights. It is cool as I write this and it feels like every living thing is breathing a…
Read MoreCommission Minutes
Thursday, July 28, 2022 PLACE OF MEETING: Scotland County Courthouse Commission Chambers The meeting was called to order at 8:30 A.M. PRESENT WERE: Presiding Commissioner, Duane Ebeling Eastern District Commissioner, Brent Rockhold was absent Western District Commissioner, David Wiggins County Clerk, Batina Dodge …
Read MoreNew Arrivals at Scotland County Memorial Library
Adult Fiction Large Print Fiction Stop by or give us a call if you’d like to reserve any of these books. The Empty Nesters, by Carolyn Brown Dark Angel (Shepherds # 2), by Brian Andrews Flight (Texas Murder Files # 2), by Laura Griffin Mulberry Hollow (Riverbend Romance # 2), by Denise Hunter Taylor Callahan,…
Read MoreIt’s For the Birds
By Sandra Ebeling I don’t know about all of you, but we have been blessed this season with an apartment house full of Purple Martins. They are so very pleasant to watch and listen to. They enjoy sitting on power lines and in tops of trees with dead limbs (which I have). …
Read More2022 June and July Chamber Meeting Minutes
Submitted by Talia Hatfield The June meeting was held at Pepsi on the 21st at 5:30; RaElla Wiggins, Julie Monroe, Bryn Aylward, Kim Campbell, Lexi Howard, Michele Drummond, Theresa Flemming & Anna Talbert were in attendance to help bag peanuts for Peanut Days. Peanut Days was held on June 25th selling on the square, J’s…
Read MoreNew Arrivals at Scotland County Memorial Library
Adult Fiction Stop by or give us a call if you’d like to reserve any of these books. Shattered, by James Patterson The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Inventions of the Heart (The Lumber Baron’s Daughters # 2), by Mary Connealy Edge of Dusk (Annie Pederson # 1), by Colleen Coble The Edge…
Read MoreA Garden that Grows Itself: A Dancing Rabbit Update
Since I first started gardening years ago, it has been a continual process of failing, giving up, and starting over again. But I do try to learn from the experiences whenever I can. Christina here, writing about sorrel, summer squash, and why volunteer tomatoes are my favorite kind of tomato. I’ve never been a consistent…
Read MoreCITY OF DOWNING REGULAR MEETING
JULY 11, 2022 – The Board of the City of Downing convened of 6:00pm on June 13, 2022 with Mayor Alan Garrett presiding. Present were Aldermen Ray Bange, Joy VanWye, Gene Bruner and Bill Anderson. City Clerk Carol Dryden, Water/Waste Water Operator Kevin Martin and Contract Operator Eric Bowens. Copies of the Agenda, Minutes of…
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