Bob Stickley, EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials
Go out to eat with your family or your significant other on a Friday or Saturday night right now and you’ll discover what most everyone else knows — w...
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February 19, 2011
More than 10,000 covered bridges once graced the landscape across our great country. There are only about 750, with their beautiful wooden floors, rem...
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February 5, 2011
Recently my grandson and I were doing a little shopping and were heading back home. As we started up the ramp to Alabama 24 west, a very large red fox...
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December 25, 2010
My dad’s father, Earl Stickley, lived in northern Michigan in some of the wildest country. The people up there were few and far between, as were most ...
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December 10, 2010
We all have fond memories of those who have passed from this walk of life. But it seems this time of year that some of our cemeteries looks so sad and...
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December 5, 2010
On Christmas day each year we celebrate the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ – at least those of us who have accepted him as our personal sav...
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November 29, 2010
One of the biggest attractions that takes place every year now is the war that takes place in Tuscaloosa or Auburn called the Iron Bowl.
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November 6, 2010
For as long as I can remember Halloween has been a fun time for young and old. I don’t remember when I was a kid that it was as commercialized as it i...
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October 2, 2010
There is something absolutely spellbinding and leaves one wondering, where did all of this beauty come from. It’s called autumn, and of course, God cr...
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September 25, 2010
I spent several years while I was in the military commanding an honor guard for the 1st Infantry Division. The Division was also known as the Big Bloo...
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