After a very quiet early campaign, candidates have been knocking on doors the past few weeks and taking part in forums and other opportunities to present their views on important issues to the voters. We at the News Exchange have posed a variety of questions on important issues over the past months and have asked [...]
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The Playhouse
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A Southern lexicon
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County Fair needs support to improve
The Union County Fair is experiencing growing pains. Over the past several years, fair organizers have added new events to make it bigger and better each time. One thing that has been missing for quite a while, however, is a featured or headline act of some sort (in addition to the rodeo’s traditionally closing the [...]
Home and garden show good opportunity to learn what works and doesn’t in tourism
The Union County Master Gardeners are presenting their fifth annual home and garden show this Friday and Saturday. The annual event may not get as widespread publicity as, say, the Tallahatchie RiverFest but it is noteworthy for several reasons. One, it is put together by a relatively small group but includes a day and a [...]
You may be old if…
Only lately have I begun to feel old, and then, thankfully, just occasionally. But if you want to have the weight of your years begin to crush you, consider some of the things that are familiar to you, but that the next generation after you is oblivious to. Monday I was at City Hall when [...]
Are you ‘entitled’ or just ‘due?’
Every once in a while we receive emails that contains topics or information people feel strongly about. Sometimes they want us to print it in the News Exchange. Most of the time, these emails have been bouncing around the internet, sometimes for years. They sound reasonable and most people take them at face value. Whenever [...]
Alas, ‘trending’ is no longer trending
Last week I wrote about the folks at Lake Superior State University who, once a year, compile a list of over-used, misused words they would like banished from the English language. I listed some of the words they have consigned to oblivion along with the years of their popularity, and added a few suggestions of [...]
Bringing back some nearly forgotten pledges
Recently we have been writing about New Year’s resolutions – a regular topic of conversation for this time of year. We had a story this past week about the history of resolutions, some of the more popular..and most often broken. The News Exchange also is taking a look at resolutions from a more practical and [...]
