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Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part letter from a reader in response to “Take Confederates off their pedestals,” which ran in the July 10 Outlook. Part 1 ran in the July 17 Outlook. 

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Surely there is no one on the planet earth who hasn't been bombarded with media coverage of the immediate aftermath of Buffalo Bills' player, Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the field. While Damar's experience is tragic — and I can relate to his suffering since I have been through it as wel…

On Friday, January 13, my staff and I were driving in two separate vehicles from Montgomery to Tallassee where we see orthodontic patients in the office of Tallassee Family Dentistry.  We leave Montgomery at 8 am to start seeing patients in Tallassee at 9:00.  At about 8:15, traffic on I-85 …

I know that I have written this before, but it seems that the 435 US Congress members are still asleep.  This country has digressed so low that I cannot even think of a word to describe it. The closest word that I can come up with is an abomination. This is the word that God Almighty Himself…

I cannot believe what I am hearing and reading.  People are not supporting their school systems for their own children.  If you live in a town/city/county, you need and must have a school system.  These systems are guided by a Board of Education, selected by either appointed or elected by th…

On November 17 we celebrate National Rural Health Day, a time to remember your friends and neighbors in Alabama’s rural hospitals. Alabama’s rural hospitals are an essential part of our communities. Over 12,000 people are employed by these hospitals. In many communities they are among the la…

You know when something has been dead for so long, it begins to rot, smell, and decompose.  Back in 1994, writer Philip K. Howard published a book entitled “The Death of Common Sense”.  Well, today Common Sense has begun to rot, smell and decompose.  In this book he laid out truths in 1994 b…

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With a statewide fire alert in a place, a plume of smoke filled the eastern sky late Friday afternoon when a fire sparked on the outskirts of the Franklin community, putting local residents on guard.

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Recovery Organization Support Specialist (ROSS) is a state- and federally-funded recovery program that goes beyond the traditional in-house services to support those in recovery. The program began in April 2018 and since that time, the City of Tallassee in Elmore and Tallapoosa counties has …

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by Dr. Kenneth Varner | Tallassee

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by Geneva Sherrer / Tallassee