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Margaret Dabbs
Taming Alabama summers in the kitchen
In May, summer teased us as she poked her head out and then retreated for a few days, returning after sharing several amazingly cool mornings. When this fickle creature finally decided to stay, sum...
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
My amazing adventures in baking
I know my columns have been a little heavy lately. I think it’s time to take a break and share some of the stupid things I’ve been doing.
Jun 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rick Watson
Recalling fun times in the summer
The last few days of school each year were pure torture for me. While my teachers were droning on till the very end trying to stuff the last little bit of knowledge for the school year into my head...
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Ruth Baker
Miss Ruth’s microscopic world
The American writer I have studied widely is William Faulkner of our neighbor, Mississippi.
Jun 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
The hope of a Blue Devil
Hate is more than an emotion. It’s an atmosphere that has engulfed the city that many of us call home.
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Cornelius McElrath is joined by Sonja Banks and Linda Bender in a photo taken during their cruise to the Bahamas. Photo special to the Eagle
Cordova resident goes on a cruise in once-in-a-lifetime trip
Cornelius McElrath had never been on a vacation, but that didn’t stop the 40-year-old Cordova native from dreaming big.
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Rick Watson
Meteorologists, like James Spann, save lives
I got a chance to interview James Spann a few weeks ago. Jilda was peeved because she’s an amateur weather woman and to her, meeting James would be like meeting Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.
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Engagements
West-Banks Steve and Pamela West of Samantha, and Hootie and Pam Daniel of Brookwood, announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacy West, to Thomas Maxwell Banks, the son of Larry and Sue Ban...
Jun 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sharing the love of language in all its beautiful forms
In the last several weeks the lives of communities as well as individuals all over the country have been turned upside down and inside out. In a time when almost nothing seems certain, we search fo...
Jun 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
Dancing in the minefields
Zac and I were doing chores together not long ago when he blurted out, "I had a dream last night that I was hunting elephants in Cordova."
May 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Janet Ray, daughter of Alabama Air National Guard pilot Thomas “Pete” Ray, is interviewed in “Playa Giron,” a documentary produced this semester by the University of Alabama Honors College’s “Lights Camera Alabama” program. - Photo Special to the Eagle
Patriotic boys
New documentary honors Alabamians’ sacrifice in Bay of Pigs invasion, including Walker County native
May 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remember those who paid the price
Monday is Memorial Day. It's a holiday that began just after the Civil War when women walked through battlefields strowing flowers, where soldiers had died.
May 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Krystle Key, a Cordova native, is crowned Mrs. Alabama by Ashley Seligson following a pageant held on May 1 in Birmingham. Key now has an opportunity to compete in the Mrs. United States Pageant. - Photo Special to the Eagle
‘A small, tiny positive light’
Mrs. Alabama proud to bring pageant crown home to Cordova
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
One foot in front of the other
Some-where in the midst of the last month’s turmoil, Wyatt started walking.
May 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ruth Baker
Life on a farm in Walker County
The watermelon patch was a favorite place for a bunch of kids who were always hungry. Our dad taught us how to check the melons for ripeness.
May 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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