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  • 'Stomach virus' hits Columbus

    Public health officials think 40 reports of illness are norovirus


    Published on: 11/14/08

    Flu season is quickly coming upon us, but it's not the flu that seems to be the problem in the Chattahoochee Valley at this time.

  • Pyracantha steals landscape shows

    Published on: 11/28/08 McClatchy-Tribune News Service

    The pyracantha gets its name from the Greek word "pyr," for fire, and "akanthos," for thorn, hence the common name firethorn. This is very appropriate, as the pyracantha has sharp, painful thorns. I remember as a child reaching in to retrieve baseballs from the branches and coming out screaming. The thorns do provide a valuable service because when grown by a window, the shrub offers protection from intruders.

  • 'Clusterz!' takeover

    Published on: 08/01/08

    The game is called 'Clusterz!' And it ate two weeks of my life.

  • Tako offers extensive menu items

    Published on: 08/07/08 sokamoto@ledger-enquirer.com

    Jim Zhong opened Tako Japanese & Chinese Restaurant in the Whitesville Crossing Shopping Center (on the corner of Whitesville and Double Churches roads) two years ago.

  • Young Pine Mountain farmers promote sustainable agriculture

    Published on: 11/23/08 Staff Reporter

    Across America, many of the small-scale farms that once fed the country have been replaced by mega-sized monoculture farms with a single crop growing in all directions, as far as the eye can see.