This blog’s headed for home for the holidays. We’ll see you on the flip side. Until then, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a new year filled with much happiness, success and good health. Thanks for reading and Happy holidays, y’all.
Ginna Parsons, lifestyles editor of the Daily Journal, reflects on 20 years in “the business” and how, oddly enough, a gaggle of refugees from the Vicksburg Post have ended up in the cast at the Tupelo daily. She also shares a wicked recipe for hamburger steaks. (Yes, I’ve got food on the brain.)…
Clarion-Ledger executive editor Ronnie Agnew is soliciting reader opinions on the top news stories of the year. Call us a cynic, but we figure sledgehammers will figure prominently…
Terri Ferguson, business editor of Greenville’s Delta Democrat Times, arrives at the timely conclusion: There isn’t really a war on Christmas…
Your acerbic editor is diabetic; this recipe exchange for low-fat, low-sugar holiday recipes appeared in The Sun-Herald; newspapers are referenced. So it qualifies for the blog on a slow week.
Inspired by the story of another person who wanted to set things right, an anonymous reader has sent $240 to the Lincoln Journal Star for newspapers stolen 40-plus years ago by someone else.
Turns out, the reader was motivated by the story of a white man who had stood by in the 1960s in Mississippi while a black man was treated rudely.
The Bolivar Commercial played a role in bringing together Natalie and Bruce Hazelton of Lancaster County, PA, with Nancy Webb of Cleveland, both of whom lost their daughters to heinous acts of murder.
“They are the sweetest people and very down to earth,” said Webb, who joined the Hazelton’s quest to see the man accused of killing young Stacey Hazelton convicted in a Bolivar County courtroom. “I could relate to what they are going through and was there for them during the trial.”
The remains of Stacey Hazelton have yet to be found.
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