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Before I got married, I rented one half of a duplex in Athens for six years from a nice elderly couple. It was in a good neighborhood in the Prince Avenue area. A couple of years after I moved out, a good friend of mine moved into the other side of that same duplex. A man lived in what used to be my apartment. And during the first few days that ... [Full Story »] 

Two young women were arrested for disorderly conduct recently after officer Alan Stratton was dispatched to a fight in progress on Freeman Circle. Patricia Lachlle Daniel, 20, 250 Alberta Drive, Danielsville and Aubree Meon Mattox, 18, 326 Alberta Drive, Colbert, were charged. According to the incident report, when Stratton arrived he saw ... [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor: I’m glad to see you writing about chemicals in our environment and food supply (“More research needed on environmental carcinogens,” by Zach Mitcham, The Madison County Journal, May 13). One that is nearly everywhere is well researched and labeled, is not forbidden but required almost ubiquitously by the agencies you wish to ... [Full Story »] 

Amps will be turned up to 11 at this year’s Rockfest in Danielsville. The daylong concert, billed as “Rockfest 2.0,” returns May 29 from noon to 10 p.m. with 10 bands blasting a heavier dose of rock music than last year’s more diversified lineup. “Last year, we had a lot of mainstream rock, we had rap artists, we had country ... [Full Story »] 

George Washington warned us that party politics would be damaging to our republic, but we chose to ignore him. Now we are cursed with two powerful political parties that are tearing this nation apart. What should we do now? I think we ought to take the power out of political parties by taking the profit out of politics. It was never the ... [Full Story »] 

When you hear the word “rodeo” most think of riding and roping cattle and horses, but in Madison County last week there was a different kind of rodeo. Madison County School System bus drivers held their own “rodeo” of sorts, competing for top honors in maneuvering those big yellow buses through a series of obstacles designed to showcase ... [Full Story »]