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Opinion

Fielder’s Choice
By Barry Burleson

Gas prices

Pam’s Expedition had a half a tank of gas in it Sunday afternoon. We’d been on the road for another baseball tournament.

We stopped and filled it up for $41.

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Close to Nowhere
By Linda Jones

It was time!

Just another ordinary week in the Jones’ house — mayhem and madness abounding!

For several years now, we’ve all been urging Pop to go see the heart doctor again. Shortness of breath and chest pain for someone who’s already had a double bypass is usually an indication of more problems.

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The Preacher’s Corner
By Rev. Dr. Milton Winter

It is the Lord who is perfect, not we who serve

Sometimes one of my friends will warn me that they have said or are about to say some “unpreacherly” words. They seldom proceed to pronounce them in my presence, but it is a clue as to what is on their minds. At such times I feel a bit outdone at not being “fully included” in the lives and thoughts of my people—that lonely isolation that comes from feeling “put on a pedestal”—as some sort of saintly person to live in a kind of hermit-like purity on behalf of the worldly community that surrounds me. I do not recall running for this position when I determined to seek ordination to the ministry.

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Wicker offers tips on making the digital television transition

By U.S. Senator Roger F. Wicker

In the chaos that surrounded the attack on our country on September 11, 2001, as well as during Hurricane Katrina, first responders and law enforcement officials had difficulties communicating with each other due in part to a lack of usable airways that carried their transmissions. Communication airwaves were overloaded, which impaired first responders’ ability to talk with one another.

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Letter To The Editor

Thank you:
Dear Editor,

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Department would like to thank all of the businesses, churches, civic organizations and individuals for helping make the benefit fish fry for the Elliott family on May 17 a success.

Thanks a million!
Sheriff Kenny Dickerson

Hometown Heroes

Please take time to remember our local “heroes” who are serving in war zones around the world.
James Marcus Anthony, Army, 2nd tour, Iraq

Mark W. Clark II, Army, Iraq
Battle Ewing, Army, Iraq
Lee (Brandon) Hutchens, Marines, Iraq
George Frank Frayser, Army, 3rd tour, Iraq
Charles Fairbairn, Army, Iraq, ’05-06; now in Afghanistan
Brandon W. Freeman, National Guard, Iraq
Jarod Grimes, Army, Iraq
Timothy Hardaway, Army, Iraq
Henry A. Jones, Army, Iraq
Donnie Kirksey, Marines, Iraq
Kelvin O. Luse, Marines, 2nd tour, Iraq
Matthew McArthur, Marines, Iraq
Michael McClatchy, Army, Iraq
George Merritt, Marines, Iraq
Chad Minor, Air Corps Intelligence, Iraq
William D. Payton Jr., Air Force, Kuwait
Chadwick (Chad) Phillips, Army, 2nd tour, Iraq
Deron Randolph, Marines, Iraq
Ben Rogers, Army Ranger, Iraq
John Snow, Army, 2 tours Iraq, now in Afghanistan
Charles (Will) Stanback, National Guard, Iraq
Mitch Swann, Army, Iraq
Stephnie Taylor, Air Force, Iraq
Lynwood Turner, National Guard, 2nd tour, Iraq
Charles Weathersby, Marines, Iraq

Supporting Our Troops

If you’d like to add a name to this list, please contact The South Reporter, attn. Linda Jones, P.O. Box 278, Holly Springs, MS 38635; 662-252-4261; or email: south@dixie-net.com

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