To the Editor, A couple of weeks ago the Police Jury went down to Old River Loop and turned a half-mile of the loop’s blacktop road into a gravel road. This is just through the campgrounds. This is my response. I’m writing this letter to address the people that thought it was a good idea to turn a s...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the April 14, 2021 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Franklin.) Education is more than reading, writing and arithmetic. It is one of the most important investments we can make in our young people. I have alw...

The story is told that one day Christopher Columbus was sitting under an orange tree eating an orange, contemplating that if he sailed his ship to the horizon he would fall off the edge of the earth, when a butterfly came and landed on the top of his orange. As he watched the butterfly walk down the...

I have a weakness for grouchy people. I have a couple of friends I would describe as perpetually grouchy, and I’m not quite sure why, but I think they...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the March 31, 2021 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Fran...

The day before the first day of spring I celebrated a birthday. Let me say thanks to all of you from the Jena area that wished me a Happy Birthday. On...