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| Children of all ages enjoy a ride on Webb Thornhill’s Christmas train. (Pictured with the conductor are Ryan and Pendley Thurmond.) |
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| Watching Walter Howell work is almost like visiting another time and place. If not for the electric blower feeding the flames of his forge, and various power tools that line the walls of his shop, one could be convinced they were observing a 17th century blacksmith.
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| The man stood at his upstairs window with tears coursing down his face, watching his wife of 52 years, in the yard below, doing his job. As he cried, he thought about how he loved her; how he absolutely, truly loved her. He always had. And he wasn’t used to leaning on her, not this way.
It was summer 2008, and although Webb Thornhill was now free of the malignant brain cancer that had recently threatened to take his life, treatments and brain surgery had weakened his body and left him in terrible pain. There was nothing he could do for her now, except watch from his window. And cry. |
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| December 8, 2009, was a special day. It was the fifth birthday of a little girl who has faced down giants, who has stood toe-to-toe with death and declared that she would not be defeated. |
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| This month's Sand Mountain Kitchens is a tribute to Twyla Spears' late mother, (inset) Jackie Clifton-Smith. Recipes: Noodle Soup, Easy Beef, Noodle and Vegetable Soup, Chicken and Dumplings, Banana Pudding and Candied Sweet Potatoes
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| The Alabama-Mississippi Telecommunications Association (AMTA) honored State Senator Lowell Barron in October as its Legislator of the Year. |
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| The Alabama Public Service Commission (APSC) has announced that residents in the 256 area code will soon be required to dial all ten digits of a telephone number when making local calls. To aid the transition, voluntary compliance took effect on Nov. 7, 2009. Mandatory 10-digit dialing becomes effective June 2010. |
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