(NOTE: The following editorial by Sammy Franklin was published in the January 12, 2022 issue, where we featured a special tribute listing all those who had died during 2021.) In this week’s edition of your parish newspaper, we are publishing “A Special Tribute” to honor all those we lost during the ...

(NOTE: The following editorial was written by Sammy Franklin and appeared in the Centennial Edition of The Jena Times on March 23, 2005. He was very proud of this grand issue, the largest single issue he’d ever published.) As this special centennial edition goes to press and reaches our readers, I a...

We all knew one day this day would come. In the back of all of our minds we knew that he wouldn’t be with us forever; but nothing could have prepared us for that moment when he actually left. That moment came last Friday morning. I was up and doing my normal morning routine when my cell phone buzzed...

There is nothing more precious than the “hug” of a child when it is given to us without our asking for it. It is so innocent and undefiled. It is give...

President George Washington’s prayers for America can and should be used as reminders of the faith and dependence upon God’s divine blessing to enable...

One of my fellow senior citizens shared the following tidbits with me over the holidays, which spells out some of the advantages of becoming a senior ...