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October 29, 2024
My dear sweet Christian Mother did not like Halloween. She found it distasteful. Mom would never use the word hate, mind you. But I believe it was borderline there an October or two back in our formative years…
October 29, 2024
Dear Editor, McKenzie needs The McKenzie Banner because of its experience of more than a century of honestly and effectively publishing the news and events of interest to its readers.
October 22, 2024
The school playgrounds of my childhood had four things to play on: monkey bars, a swing, a slide, and a seesaw or teeter-totter.
October 15, 2024
We didn’t go to the movies in 1955. We went to the picture show. ’Course, that was if we could rustle up 15 cents apiece and Daddy didn’t need us for the afternoon. We’d make a beeline for the old Park Theatre. It was only a little over a mile to town. We ran most all the way…about as excited as we could get.
October 8, 2024
We should’ve never met.
October 1, 2024
Thank you to everyone that attended the Centennial Business Coffee on September 18. It was such a blessing to see you all. We loved welcoming you into our business and spending time together.
September 24, 2024
Over the weekend, a few posts went viral concerning a man that was booked into Henry County Jail on Sunday afternoon on a $50,000 bond. The man is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after he took photos from various women’s and children’s social media accounts and reposted them to his account with lewd comments on some. The Henry County Sheriff’s office has the man in custody and is investigating.
September 24, 2024
We should’ve never met.
September 17, 2024
It’s one of Southerner’s most-used expressions.
September 17, 2024
Late last year, the city of Memphis wrote a $7,419.68 check to reimburse the attorney fees of journalist Marc Perrusquia rather than risk losing a public records lawsuit.
September 10, 2024
Don’t ya’ll think this election thing has done got out of hand! There are people running for president that I’ve never heard of. And, after listening to some “back and forth” amongst this gang, I realize why we’ve never heard of them! It is rhetoric on top of rhetoric, mostly pointing out what the other fellow DOESN’T have to offer. To make matters worse, the ones we have heard of don’t seem to be making enough sense to separate themselves from the pack.
September 10, 2024
I remember the first family gathering after my father died. The dining table my mother had received as a gift when I was in high school was stretched out and extra leaves were inserted. Six matching chairs plus several folding chairs lined both sides. At the foot of the table sat mama’s chair and at the head sat daddy’s.
September 3, 2024
Believe me, I understand it is football season. Major League Baseball, as it does every September, separates the pretenders from the contenders. The kids start back to school. And college campuses are filled with wide-eyed 18-year-olds full of wonder, anticipation, and maybe, just a tad of trepidation.
September 3, 2024
Climbing the stairs to coach Gibson's office, I wondered what I was in trouble for.
August 27, 2024
Walking down the dusty road, Cleopas and his friend had little to say to each other. Their collective heartache and disappointment weighed down their normally busy tongues. For the past seven miles fewer than seven words had passed between them.
August 27, 2024
The wind blew hard northwest by west; it had commenced to snow: A small Salvation Army Band played carols, sweet and low.
August 20, 2024
I grew up in the safest place in America. And it could be argued, I grew up in the safest time in the storied history of our great nation.
August 20, 2024
“There they go boys! Don’t stop now!”
August 13, 2024
It seems like to me, back when I was competing in the Summer Olympics, we didn’t do so much talking between events as they do today. You can bet your bottom dollar we didn’t plan our races, high dives, and javelin throws around television commercials. And a long-winded documentary on every contestant in every event would have been superfluous.
August 13, 2024
Those big shots up in Washington are in a raging stew;
