They Arrest in Red Bay, but Suspend in Sheffield?

During the past week, there have been gun threats at two local schools - Red Bay Middle School and Sheffield High School. The young male in Red Bay, remember a "junior high" student, was arrested and taken to the Tennessee Valley Juvenile Detention Center. The male in Sheffield who was a high school student was simply suspended for one day.

Certainly the threat from the Red Bay student could have been more credible, but if we were a Sheffield parent, we would want to know why administrators told students not to tell their parents about the incident. 

We would also like to know, if the incident in Sheffield occurred at 9:30, why the junior high faculty and students weren't informed until around noon. Were they just supposed to look out their windows and guess why police officers were at the high school next door?

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News coverage? You may have noticed that the TimeDaily hasn't covered either of these school stories. The Franklin Free Press, Red Bay News, and Pen-N-Sword all covered the Red Bay incident. Only PNS covered the Sheffield story. Perhaps the TD doesn't think threatened school shootings are newsworthy?

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So after five years of employment, Dwayne Oliver will finally be attending a course on how to recognize animal abuse. Well, it's at least a start.

We often see it stated that Alabama's county commissions are simply glorified "road commissions." Indeed, that's what these bodies were called for years. Yet today these commissions oversee many aspects of county laws - don't forget that! If a county law is passe' or isn't working for whatever reason, it can be changed. 

Let's not let up in our attempts to bring the Lauderdale County Commission into the 20th century...AND NO THAT WASN'T A TYPO. Perhaps in a decade or so we can bring them up to 2001!

Voters are already planning to bring these men down during the next two election cycles. Perhaps the commissioners had better start thinking long and hard about how they can redeem themselves?