Three SEC Championship Seasons to Remember

Three SEC Championship Seasons to Remember By Tom Mattingly The 2024 season marks the 85th anniversary of the 10-1 1939 team, the 55th anniversary of the 9-2 1969 team, and the 35th anniversary of the 11-1 1989 team, champions all. Each of these “Boys of Fall” teams...

Publisher’s Positions

Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Well Done, Mike McMillan Nobody would have been more pleased than Mike McMillan by the send-off he received from friends.  McMillan passed away after a long battle with cancer on January 26.  Congressman Tim Burchett spoke at Mike...

Cable news isn’t news

Cable news isn’t news By Joe Rector I’ve always liked the news on television. My generation was lucky enough to have anchors such as Huntley and Brinkley, Frank Reynolds, and the GOAT, Walter Cronkite. Back then, we had a half-hour local news report, and then the...

‘Mr. D’

By Ralphine Major He was known as Tony D’Andrea, but students called him “Mr. D.”  In the early sixties, he became the band director at Gibbs, a small rural school in Corryton, Tennessee.  While D’Andrea taught band at the junior high and high school levels, he also...

The American Reformation

The American Reformation To go against conscience is neither right, nor safe. Martin Luther By Dr. Jim Ferguson In 1517, a Catholic priest by the name of Martin Luther pinned his recommendations for reform of the Catholic Church to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral in...