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Oh, that strawberry roan
Boyhood memories of going to the Saturday afternoon picture show with good buddies will never fade from this old memory bank, I don’t believe. I’m ...
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Columns
COLUMN: ‘All the Way’
I’m inspired to write this column for four reasons. We just had our annual reunion at the camp house of former Special Forces Colonels, who ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:49 pm
Blackbelt Gazette
Linden’s Isaiah Scott will receive MCSHOF’s annual scholarship
The Marengo County Sports Hall of Fame has announced the selection of Linden High School student-athlete Isaiah Scott as the recipient of the organization’s 2018 ...
by Tom Boggs, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:14 pm
Blackbelt Gazette
UWA inducts U.S. Jones teacher into Golden Key Society
During Fall Commencement on Dec. 9, the University of West Alabama inducted U.S. Jones Elementary teacher and computer lab director, Amelia Mackey, into the prestigious ...
by Tom Boggs, Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:44 pm
Blackbelt Gazette
MCSHOF announces inductees of tenth class
On Monday evening, Feb. 12, 2018 will usher in the 10th Class of Inductees to be enshrined into the Marengo County Sports Hall of Fame. ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:03 pm
Blackbelt Gazette
Marengo County Sports Hall of Fame celebrating 10 years
In the summer of 2007, Tom Boggs, Tony Speegle, and Johnny Brooker met to discuss how to recognize and publicize the tremendous sports history of ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 10:42 am
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Marengo County Hall of Fame banquet to be ‘spectacle’
There have been more than just a few folks who have made the statement that if they had known how much fun was had at ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 9:35 am
Columns
Little bitty changes we lived for a while
Well, yep, I reckon I've spent most of my time penning words and sentences 'bout the 40s and the 50s, but I was still around ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:37 pm
Columns
Missing those deep baying hounds dogs
I was breaking up a deer field for my grandsons the other day, and as I was bumping along, on my John Deere pulling that ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 8:29 pm
COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT
The capitol of cow country
Now, before you read on this week, stop and gander at that photograph…now take a guess who that it with the ribbon for showing that ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:31 pm
Lifestyles
The remembering of a public servant
With a caption like the one above in one of these columns, you’d expect I’d be taking about somebody I’ve known who’s passed on away ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:13 am
COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT
Soldiers.
I reckon this is the first column I’ve ever produced with just one word as the title, but I believe that is enough for what ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 5:10 pm
Lifestyles
A gathering of Devils from the 50s
Sixty-one years ago used to seem like a mighty long while…a mighty long one, but daggum if that was just a hop, skip and a ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 7:40 pm
COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT
Recollecting one big local hunter
The picture today is a little scraggly, but it’s mor’n 60 years old. That’s Ol’ Thomas with my first deer, and my nine-year-old brother looking ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 7:23 pm
COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT
I’ll be a Red Devil ’til the day I die
I attended still another funeral in my hometown of Linden the other week, the funeral of a former all-state guard from the Linden Red Devils, ...