50 YEARS AGO

Shown getting the fans fired up for Clinton’s freshman football team were members of CHS’s 9th grade cheerleading squad. Leading a cheer were Jacey Stone, Mandy Shulz and Brooke Stephenson while sitting on their shoulders were Jennifer Ackley, Allison Dowdell and Gina Gibbons.

Fairy stories, myths in a disenchanted world

Demons appear on movie screens all the time, but poet Richard Rohlin is convinced he has actually seen them at work when counseling young people whose search for meaning has driven them deep in experiments with sex, drugs and the occult.

Reader feels inadequate in group of friends

DEAR HARRIETTE: My friends are more conventionally attractive than I am, and it's been weighing on my self-esteem a bit. When we go out together, all the attention is given to them, and I am treated as if I'm not even there.

Exposing Biden’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ slander

E arly voting began in Georgia several days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state’s Senate race, with University of Georgia football legend Herschel Walker challenging Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, and the governor’s race, between Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. Kemp is going to win that one, but the Senate contest is essentially tied. Its outcome might well determine which party controls the Senate.

Woman embarrassed to share news of pregnancy

DEAR HARRIETTE: I found out that I was pregnant about three months ago. This will be my first child, and I'm extremely happy about it. I've told a few immediate family members and my very best friends about my pregnancy, but for some reason, I'm feeling embarrassed about telling anyone outside of that. I'm not sure what exactly I'm feeling embarrassed about. I think it might be the fact that I'm not married or in a relationship with the person I am having a baby with. How do I get over this feeling? — Expecting DEAR EXPECTING: It is understandable that you are feeling a bit uneasy, given that you seem to subscribe to traditional family values that call for a woman to be married before having a child. Since that is not your story now, you have to let go of that narrative.

Classroom litter boxes, other myths

This just in: Regardless of what your ex-wife’s hairdresser’s brother-in-law says, there’s not a single documented instance of a school district anywhere in the United States installing litter boxes in bathrooms to accommodate students identifying as “furries” and wearing cat costumes to school.

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