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A Manchester man faces numerous charges after a three-year-old boy was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta following a call to a residence on Nebula Road. According to reports, the March 25 incident took place in the 1500 block of Nebula Road. On arrival, Manchester Police discovered a child suffering from injuries allegedly inflicted by the boyfriend of the child’s mother.

The Talbotton Police Department held an Easter Egg Hunt and Easter event for all the children and residents of Talbot County on Saturday, Apr. 4 and the event was well attended.

I knew this was coming, but I didn’t think he’d be ready so quickly. The Major League Baseball season just got underway, and already the Baseball Curmudgeon who lives inside my head, Homer K. Frink, is bursting at the seams to speak out on a topic that is on the minds of a lot of fans. Mr. Frink watches a great number of games – being retired (from what I have no idea) he has little else to do – and he has been jumping up and down with excitement about his next commentary. Well, doing as much jumping up and down as a man of his years can do. All right, Mr. Frink, I’ll step aside and let you have the column space this week.  It’s the only way I’ll get any sleep. Homer, you’re up.

I was born on April 17 and, as a child, my birthday always fell the weekend of or after Easter. Then the government, in it’s infinite wisdom, decided to move Easter around every year. Growing up on a farm you learn a lot about livestock, planting, harvesting and the seasons. If you research this I assure you what I’m about to say is accurate. The Dogwood trees always bloom from early to mid April. Usually between April 4th or 5th to around the 13th to 15th. That doesn’t change. As a Christian, I believe in the legend of the Dogwood. Legend says the Dogwood was used for the cross that Jesus hung upon and when its blossoms it symbolizes the crucifixion.

In just the last few weeks an increasing number of proposed data center locations have been reported throughout an expanding area relatively close to the coverage area of this newspaper. It might well be that companies desiring to construct data centers could be leaking potential location rumors just to identify those areas less antagonistic to the idea. Opposition to data centers spreads rapidly – most often on social media – which is quite humorous as the increasing use of social media is one of the issues driving the need for more data centers. Just recently a social media post highlighting the potential negative impacts of data centers made the rounds on social media – yet again. Included among those negative impacts were increased electrical use and infrastructure, increased water use and infrastructure, increased property values and taxation, noise and traffic, environmental concerns, and negative impact on wildlife. Those issues, and more, are legitimate concerns and have repeatedly been raised concerning development of … subdivisions.

Greetings and blessings! Today, across the globe, we graciously celebrated Easter/Resurrection (Christianity and Holy) Sunday. So then, my mind once again took me back to a childhood song that I perhaps mentioned before but still, always appropriate for such a time. So much so that I song a little of it in church, “Why did Jesus have to bleed and die?” Of course, the answer is, “for you and I.” Rightly so, I learned the divine song while traveling around in several counties singing as a little boy with my dear mother. Anyhow the group was called “Note Singes” which unfortunately, no one nowadays does anymore in this area and all have passed on.