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It was a warm soft summer night in 1947 and I was walking home. I saw 5 of my peers sitting in front of the Main Café. Just sitting there. Their feet somewhat appropriately in the gutter. I detoured and joined them. I noticed one thing different though. There was a brand-new Cadillac parked right in front of the café. The conversation was, uh, well I don’t remember except we talked about the new car. New cars weren’t common in 1947 — right after the war — but there sat this one. Its door swung open and the driver came over and stood in front of our group of 12 and 13 year old boys. Most of us had taken up smoking cigarettes. And some of us were smoking. Or trying to.
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Aaron Blue has worn a variety of hats since he first became interested in firefighting back when he was a high school teenager. Today, 27 years later, he serves as interim city manager for the City of Coalgate, fire chief of the Coalgate Fire Department/EMS, and the City of Coalgate Emergency Management Director.
Read moreCoal County remains under a burn ban this week. On Monday, the Board of County Commissioners issued a resolution proclaiming that extreme fire danger still exists in the county. The new ban is effective Monday, January 31 to Monday, February 7.
Read moreVoters will go to the polls Tuesday, February 8, for the Tupelo Schools and Stonewall Schools Special Election.
Read moreThe Coalgate High School baseball team is sponsoring a blanket drive for Ruth Wilson Hurley Manor residents and Mary Hurley Hospital. New blankets with tags are now being accepted for delivery on Valentine’s Day. The drive will end February 11.
Read moreSometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck. I learned that the USS Lexington crew (1,100 of them) was the worse infected crew in the 7 fleet. That long line of sailors were waiting for medical attention for their recently caught VD. I went up to my workstation and learned all about it. Not any of my guys were infected. In fact, it was all on the deck divisions and some of our so called “air dales” who had gone ashore and partaken of the shore delights they should have avoided.
Read moreThose of us whose hearing is not quite as good as it used to be will appreciate the following. Regan Rose writes . . .
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