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Mark calendars for gala

A gala to commemorate Franklin’s 50th year as an independent city is set for Friday night, Feb. 17, ...

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Waning influence in Richmond

Area business and community leaders will get some face time with their General Assembly delegation when the Franklin-Southampton ...

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Enough with the diversions

Robert Bennett, former Republican senator from Utah, said of Congress and the president what could be said of ...

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A bad reputation

All’s well that ends well, they say, and it couldn’t be truer than in the case of the ...

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On charter, don’t get carried away

In this open season on the City of Franklin’s charter, the City Council should amend the charter to ...

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Who’ll fill the void?

The selfish human nature makes a certain amount of class warfare inevitable, I suppose, but the conflict seems ...

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Big changes in Southampton

Three people I wouldn’t want to be come Jan. 1: Mike Johnson, Charles Turner and John Smolak.

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Chasing news tips

Since long before “Deep Throat” brought down a president four decades ago, newspapers have relied on tipsters to ...

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The phantom candidate

Rick Morris actually exists somewhere other than on television and in my mailbox, I suppose, but I’ve begun ...

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Colorblind leadership

The appointment of Edna King to the Franklin School Board two years ago caused much handwringing in white ...

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