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I took my 12-year-old cousin to the emergency room two years ago after she was experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms one night and was told that she actually had the flu. Since I had been around her all day, I was asked by the emergency room physician if I wanted to get tested as well?

My Opinion By Billy Coleman As spring is approaching, later sunsets should mean better days for local businesses. It remains to be seen if that will happen this year as we have several new businesses hoping for great success in the warmer months.

Having a background in the helping profession is a curse. I’m sure any nurses, doctors, or paramedics know what I’m talking about.

Last spring, we did a detailed story about trouble we had in our newspaper office. We did the story and provided a QR code for our readers to access videos of the thousands of bats that we had in the walls of our building.

DEAR EDITOR: In Cassie Condrey’s column last week, a question was posed: do you think a man in a robe you’ve never met should decide if you should or should not be a mother? For me the answer is yes. Even a goal as worthy as motherhood must have checks and balances on the means to achieve that goal.

(Using) My Voice By Cassie Condrey When my husband and I decided we were ready for another baby, it didn’t happen. It had happened easily and without much thought with our first, after one dreadful miscarriage and two that were only little blips of possibility.

It’s very possible that I might be in the minority when it comes to appreciating certain seasons of the year. I must say, next weekend will bring about one of my most dreaded times of the year.

Three things are on my mind right now. Single- mindedness, Lent and self-denial, and using what you’ve been given.

DEAR EDITORS: Congratulations to the paper on the excellent articles celebrating Black History Month and especially to Frededreia Willis-Dunham for her revealing account of the Farm Security Administration’s egregious actions in Transylvania in 1938 and their ongoing repercussions. As she explains, this was essentially a racially motivated landgrab by the federal government.

I never valued the significance of jury duty until I found myself the victim of a crime. This was many years ago when I worked at a local video store during the evenings, and commuted to Louisiana Tech during the day. One night, as I locked the doors to the store and was walking to my car behind the building, a man wearing a mask came out of nowhere holding a gun, demanding the money bag from the store.