Editorials

An old friend posted on social media the other day that next year would be our high school class's 40th year.
I won't use my exact word-reaction here, but I'll say that as a young teenage reporter at this fine newspaper, when I was sent out to photograph high school reunions, any group marking 25 years or more was surely a bunch of "old heads."
Forty years? Good grief. Those folks were in their LATE FIFTIES. HOW COULD THEY STILL BE ALIVE?

This may be the shortest column I've ever penned over the span of four decades.
Post Blooming Festival days are always super busy, sometimes just as busy as during the event with many loose ends to tie up. Those loose ends, combined with normal newspaper activities, plus adding budget season - makes for days that just are not long enough to get everything done!
A quick recap of Blooming Festival weekend is no longer possible as the event has grown far beyond expectations from the days in 1997 when the event was launched.

Dear editor: On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 3 p.m.., there is a clarion call for all prayers and prayer warriors to gather at your local flag pole to intercede in unity with the many thousands who will be on our national Mall in Washington D.C. to proclaim and make spiritual declarations according to II Chronicles 7;14 "If, my People, who are called by my Name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land."

BICENTENNIAL - This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on July 6, 1976. The youngest and oldest citizens of Nashville were honored at the town's Religious heritage Service during the Bicentennial Celebration. Nashville mayor Rex Paramore is shown presenting a Bicentennial quilt to Mrs. Eliza D. May who was to turn 100 years old on July 30th. Michael Leroy Tyndall, who was born late Saturday, was the youngest citizen.