Whenever we go to a physician for care we are normally greeted by someone who takes our “vital signs” and then asks us to describe our “symptoms” - our reason for wanting to talk with a physician. These symptoms or vital signs are indicators - early warning signs of a deeper or more serious conditio...

70 Years Ago July 17, 1952 Miss Claudette McGee of Jena and Miss Jo Anne Hayes of Urania have been awarded a $500 scholarship to Northwestern State College School of Nursing by the Baptist Hospital of Alexandria. The amount of the scholarship covers approximately the student’s first year expenses on...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the April 15, 2020 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Franklin.) Looking back at some older columns penned by your editor, I ran across one that ran about 25 years ago titled “confession of a country editor”....

In America this minute leftists can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt. They are pushing an agenda that is evil. They are hellbent on accompl...

Here we go again. The communists don’t like a Supreme Court decision, and they take to the streets and the airwaves. March, scream, threaten, destroy,...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the June 25, 2019 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Frank...