Year: 2021

THREE GENERATIONS – Buddy Leach (seated) was recently honored as a 60-year member of the Huntingdon Masonic Lodge #106. Also pictured are his son, Buddy Leach II (at left), and his grandson, Buddy Leach III (at right). Together they represent three generations of Free Masonry. 60-YEAR MEMBER – T.C. Chandler (at right) was recently honored…

I received a news release from LeBonheur Children’s Hospital the other day concerning children who commit unintentional shootings. The release that was date lined  Memphis said that in 2020 there were at least 257 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 106 deaths and 158 injuries. With Gov. Bill Lee’s legislation allowing permit less handgun carry…

Sobering Statistics Abuse within the family is a growing issue in Tennessee.  Whether it originates from drug or alcohol addictions or anger and rage, family abuse needs to be more boldly addressed.   As your District Attorney, I am acutely aware of the suffering of victims that have encountered some form of abuse.   My staff works…

Dear Editor, When I was a youngster growing up in the rural south one of the few things we had for entertainment was playing cowboys. We used everything from home made wooden pistols to the fancy kind that held paper rolls of “caps”. At some point we out grew this type of entertainment.But from what…

“All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” If you’re reading this column on Wednesday, then today is Holocaust Remembrance Day – the day set aside to remember one of the most horrific and blatantly evil episodes in all of human history – when, in the years leading…