2 months ago
Photo by Clay McFerrin, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Oldest grandchildren, Harper and Beckett, enjoy some sledding on our ice rink, which actually is what is left of our above-ground swimming pool after a big windstorm blew down some walls a few months ago. Sometimes, good things can come from bad.
It makes for interesting conversation, and lively Sun-Sentinel reader poll fodder, but the question of which was worse — the Great Ice Storm of 1994 or Winter Storm Fern in 2026 — is just a neighborly mental exercise for those who actually lived through both.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
2 months ago
By Rev. Austin Bishop
5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
— John16:5-7 (ESV)
Published on
2 months ago
By Rev. Austin Bishop
5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
— John16:5-7 (ESV)
Published on
2 months ago
The Question
An American woman stands with her hand over her heart, singing and weeping with joy, as our national anthem is played to honor her for winning her Olympic race. Her competition was against sports teams from other countries. She is being honored for representing our country. Perhaps in the back of her mind is a realization that some time in the past, one of her ancestors came to this country, settled, worked hard, raised a family, and that she inherited the work ethic that made her victory possible.
Published on
2 months ago
The Question
An American woman stands with her hand over her heart, singing and weeping with joy, as our national anthem is played to honor her for winning her Olympic race. Her competition was against sports teams from other countries. She is being honored for representing our country. Perhaps in the back of her mind is a realization that some time in the past, one of her ancestors came to this country, settled, worked hard, raised a family, and that she inherited the work ethic that made her victory possible.
Published on
2 months ago
This cold weather makes me melancholy as I sit and ponder yesteryears. It makes me remember the days of cold winter that I spent with my grandmother and grandaddy in Montgomery County.
You hear people talk about living in the country, well this was LIVING in the country. The property sat right on the Montgomery County line and the Attala County line. The old barn, housing the old Guernsey milk cow, sat straddle the two county lines.
Published on
