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To make a pearl
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by Staff Reports 
October 5, 2019
To make a pearl, an oyster needs two things: an irritant and time. The oyster was created to cope with the irritant and to flourish even with that agg...
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Cooking with Coan
Features, Food, Lifestyles
by Staff Reports 
September 30, 2019
When school lets out for the summer, that means things are just heating up in Cindy Coan’s kitchen classroom at Russellville High School. As the Famil...
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Credit scores: What you need to know
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by Staff Reports 
September 18, 2019
First things first: credit scores and credit reports are two different things. I think the onslaught of media advertising “Get your free credit score ...
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Environmentally entertaining
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by Alison James 
September 14, 2019
In 1984 Steve Trash was a recent college graduate from the University of North Alabama trying to make it as a street performer and busker in New York ...
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Why I Love Franklin County: Barry Moore
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by Alison James 
September 10, 2019
Barry Moore is a dyed-in-the-wool Franklin County native. He and his wife Deedra, a retired Russellville High School business teacher who now works fo...
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Crafting his own path
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by María Camp 
September 6, 2019
Jeffery Dick, a 2006 graduate of Red Bay High School and owner of The Little Stitch in downtown Red Bay, discovered his lifelong passion for sewing at...
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