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The beginning in the South

Usually, one expects to see a championship team featured in the news media, but why should winning a championship be the criteria for being noted, ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Thursday, October 25, 2018 12:29 pm

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Two-step, jitterbug and bunny hop

Lost in the ‘50s one more week. One could do worse than be lost there, but let me digress just a moment before we start. ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Monday, October 22, 2018 4:19 pm

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Instruction on an old art

Far as I can tell these days, youngsters don’t go around playing Kick the Can, Red Rover, Red Rover, let Bobby come over, or even ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 3:47 pm

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On my honor

On my honor … that is the beginning of the Boy Scout Oath, which continues “… to do my duty to God and my country…” ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 1:32 pm

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Taking care of the biddies and stuff

Quite a while back I got a letter and a picture from my good friend, Angela Poellnitz Busch. The picture was of a mama duck ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Monday, July 16, 2018 11:06 am

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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 ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:51 pm

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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.  ... Read more

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 ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 10:42 am

demopolis alabama

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:31 pm

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