Unpleasant but necessary
      Tax sales and foreclosures are not happy events for anyone involved. Governments and other creditors would much rather be paid what is owed them than go to the trouble and expense of a forced sale on the courthouse steps.
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: Feb. 11, 1998 Burke County's two STAR students were Sudie Griffin of Burke County High School and Nancy Johnson of Edmund Burke Academy. BCHS football stars Lannis Baxley and Michael Youngblood signed letters of intent to play in college. Baxley signed with the University of Alab...
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By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Congratulations to Ashley and Barbra Ann Hammett on the birth of their son, William Ashley "Asher," born Friday, Feb. 8 at Burke Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds and 5 ounces. "Asher," is Hebrew for "Happy." ****** My heartfelt sympathy is extended to my neighbor, Kae Bentley-Puchta. Kae's ...
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MY SATURDAY NIGHT
Steven Rice
      5:15pm. Got a craving. There's nothing in the house to eat. There's cheese in the fridge, but I don't want to just eat cheese. Oh, look, Cream of Mushroom in the cabinet. What can go with that? Cheese? Pass. Where to go? I feel like something sweet, with a citrus twist. But I also want something...
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HOW CAN I BE SO WRONG?
Bill Shipp
      I have been so wrong so often on these presidential primaries that I don't know where to start cleaning up and trying to explain my record. • I said Barack Obama couldn't win outside the South. America turned out to be further ahead on racial matters than I thought. A lot of enlightened wh...
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THE CALL
Don Lively
      I had been waiting for an important phone call for several days. It was a call that I knew would arrive soon but there was a window of time connected with it. It could come in at any moment during a three day period.
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