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Family vacation goal remains the same
Family vacation goal remains the same

Last week, we took a family vacation. This one was a little different.
It was the first one for us as an extended family -- Holly is married and so our new son-in-law was along for the first time. He's given us no choice but to like him, so based on our vacation history, we were a little concerned for his safety -- mentally and physically.
The last time we took a family trip was back in 2024 when we did our version of European Vacation.

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Our state indeed fails when dealing with extreme mental illness
Our state indeed fails when dealing with extreme mental illness

Superior Court Judge Timothy Wilson made a statement during a recent disposition hearing at the sentencing of a local father whose son had been struggling for years with severe mental illness issues. "It would be a manifest injustice to impose an active punishment in this case," Wilson stated, who apologized on record to Darrell Gregg Wallace, and to all his family "for the way that our state deals with people who have mental illness."
Due to the mental illness, there were many times of extreme danger imposed upon the family. The unimaginable happened one day when a father had to choose safety for the rest of his family during a severe episode.

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Backward Glances
Backward Glances

This photo published in The Graphic on Sept. 16, 1976. Paula Bass checks the skies over Nashville as heavy rains fell in Nash County and across the state helping to alleviate a severe drought.

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