Latest
Coalgate firefighter/Coal County Emergency Management Director Berney Blue with his beautiful Dalmatians, wife Chayenne and 3-month-old daughter Skyler, and firefighter-in-training son, 2-year-old Asher.
Read moreOn September 29, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R. Kansas), Jon Tester (D-Montana), Jack reed (D-Rhode Island) and Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) to honor the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
Read moreIn the early morning hours of November 11, 1918, representatives of France, Britain, and Germany met in a railroad car near Compeigne, France, To sign an armistice ending World War I, or The Great War, as it was known at that time. The cease-fire took effect at 11:00am that day - The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Up and down the trenches, after four long years of the most horrific fighting the world had yet known, the guns fell silent. “The roar stopped like a motor car hitting a wall,“ one U.S. soldier wrote to his family. Soldiers on both sides slowly climbed out of the earthworks. Some danced; some cheered; some cried for joy; some stood numbed. The Great War had left some 9 million soldiers dead and another 21 million wounded. No one knows how many millions of civilians died. Much of Europe lay in ruins. But finally, with the armistice, it was “all quiet on the Western Front.“
Read moreHOSPITAL BOND ELECTION— City of Coalgate employee Ray Farmer casts an early ballot at the Coal County Election Board.
Read moreHOSPITAL BOND ELECTION— Early voter Thelma Tomlinson exercises her right to vote during the early voting period.
Read moreHALLOWEEN IN COALGATE— Look who showed up in Coalgate on trick-or-treat night — none other than Carole Baskin (Logan English) and Joe Exotic (Cole English)! More Halloween pics inside.
Read more