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Chamber Chat: Join a club in 2014

Happy New Year! December 28th the Territorial Square Dance Club invites you to join them at 601 N. Pine, in the old girl scout cabin….







“Thank You”

I would like to begin by complementing the District 1 employees on this last snow storm. We had members of the crew working  24hrs and the…


Superintendent: Bluejays and Blueberries

How about those Bluejays???  Congratulations to our football team for closing out the season in grand fashion; undefeated and clearly the best team in class…


The most unscrupulous lobbying technique

Last week I described the abuse by which various area government entities have been designing construction specifications so as to limit competition and award a…


Mark Sharpton: CEO? I think not!

CEO? I think not! Problems I see with a CEO/Manager type of County Government. It grows government and is cost more money. After reading a…





An example of legalized corruption

Almost one year ago, Senator Clark Jolley asked me to assist him in bringing an end to what appeared to be a practice of legalized…




Community Garden: Worthless bird talk

All the collars have been removed from the visiting and fugitive turkeys.  They have blended in well with the garden turkeys.  All of them seem…




Mark Sharpton: Giving Thanks

This week the United States is celebrating Thanksgiving. Today it seems to be about family, food, football and black Friday sales. The first two are…