We recently posed a Facebook question asking our viewers on that site what their favorite Christmas memories were. Those responses will be published in a special article next week during our Christmas Edition but one thing was very clear: No other holiday stirs the emotions as memories of Christmas....

Christmas is a time for memories. I have two childhood memories that have stayed with me all of my “x” number of years, and they are as clear as if they happened a couple of years ago instead of six decades ago. It was 1954. I was six, Nub was four, and Doug was two. We lived in a small house, a rea...

It’s been thirty years ago this year when a group of community leaders set in motion a project to light up the downtown area of Jena with thousands and thousands of miniature lights. And it proved to be an amazing undertaking. The lighting project was a brainchild of the late Barbara Windham, follow...

I was in a very confused state of mind last week when the new head football coach was announced for the LSU Tigers. As a life-long LSU fan, I was taug...

One week ago, today (Thursday 11/25) we were celebrating Thanksgiving. As many of you know Thanksgiving has traditionally been my favorite holiday. It...

A few weeks ago (as in the first of November), I took my wife’s car out of town and as soon as I started the engine, Christmas music came blaring from...