by design | Jun 3, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
I’m going to miss him By Joe Rector Today is May 23. I just received a telephone call to inform me that my cousin had passed. Right at this moment, I don’t feel much of anything. In fact, it’s hard to believe that the man is gone. Charles (Charlie) Quinton Balch might...
by design | May 28, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Not enough road By Joe Rector A few weeks ago, I wrote about the progress of the new Schaad Road. I also wrote about the traffic that had been routed through our subdivision and onto back roads. Here’s an update on that story. Most motorists have been driving...
by design | May 20, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
They don’t know the facts By Joe Rector I’ve watched the protests on college campuses until I’m just about to be nauseated with them and the individuals who are participating. That doesn’t mean that Israel receives a free pass from me on this whole situation. Plenty...
by design | May 13, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Madden is Sixteen, Oh Lord! By Joe Rector Amy and I traveled to Hendersonville to celebrate our grandson’s birthday. He was born on May 1, 2019. On that day, the rain poured, and Nashville flooded. Fifteen years later, the boy is 16 and street legal. Yep, he has a...
by design | May 6, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Dangerous Detour By Joe Rector Work continues on the new road that will relieve congestion on Ball Camp Pike. Those of us at this end of the county have waited plenty long enough to have completion of the project in sight. The road work began about 15 years ago, but...
by design | Apr 29, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Still Alive By Joe Rector This past weekend, I was thrilled to find out that my neighbors weren’t dead. I mean nearly all of them. They disappeared at the end of October 2023. So few sightings of them had me wondering if they’d moved or died. Not until last Saturday...
