By Meg Hibbert
My husband is a North Georgia boy. He grew up next to Emory University in Atlanta and didn’t have the privilege of pecan trees in his yard.
I did. My mother and daddy’s yard in South Georgia – Albany, to be exact (pronounced All-benny by those in the know) – had a couple of aging...
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By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – George Feild kills people. In print, that is.
Probably most of the people who know the Johns Creek resident realize he writes adventure novels. Field is the author of four Alec Caldwell thrillers, the latest of which is “Kingdom of Pawns.”
The galley of that novel has been selected as a candidate to...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – It’s become a national epidemic: unhealthy kids who spend more time in front of computer screens than playing outdoors.
But that won’t be true in Salem over the next three years. The city has received a federal grant for more than $800,000 that will cover everything from physical education and wellness equipment to...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – With lights and siren blaring, Gail Anderson whizzed through the parking lot on a stand-up police scooter.
“That’s not as difficult as I thought it would be,” said Anderson, who lives in Cave Spring and who was trying out some of the electric vehicles in Salem.
She was in the parking lot of Dominion...
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By Meg Hibbert
I remember the days B.C. – before Catawba, aka “Giant Puppy.”
On mornings like Monday when I found only a few crushed egg shells as ghosts of the 14 fresh eggs he ate – yes, more than a dozen! – I look back in my mind at the cute, little blonde teddy bear we adopted.
It...
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By Meg Hibbert
GLENVAR – What looked like an ordinary yard sale was really a community rallying to help two badly burned boys.
The giant yard sale at the Fort Lewis Fire Department in Glenvar on Sept. 17 was a way of reaching out to provide comfort for Cole and Mason Anderson, who are undergoing skin grafts and...
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By Meg Hibbert
NEW CASTLE – During recent thunderstorms and accompanying winds, power outages have happened more than usual in September.
Some who are Craig-Botetourt Electric Co-operative customers lost power for three hours on Sept. 9 – and it wasn’t even the electric co-op’s fault, according to the general manager.
Shawn Hildebrand explained Appalachian Power Co. had a failure...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – As a child actor in television’s “Family Affair,” Kathy Garver had to do her homework. ”Cissy” is grown now, but she still does homework in learning her lines for television shows and movies, and even in researching recipes for “The Family Affair Cookbook” she wrote with Geoffrey Mark.
“Any time food was mentioned on...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – We all remember where we were, and what we were doing. Sept. 11. A date that changed our nation, and the way firefighters and police officers do their jobs.
9/11: The date terrorists flew two commercial airliners into the World Trade Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon. We remember the...
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By Meg Hibbert
ROANOKE – A $20-million suit was filed this morning on behalf of the estate of murdered mother Jennifer Agee, against the sheriff of Franklin County and his former deputy, Agee’s estranged husband, who is accused of killing her.
Jennifer Agee lived in Salem when she was shot to death on May 30. She worked at...
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