I have tried to think of something bad about Christmas. So far, I’m coming up empty. Oh, it is easy today to complain about overspending, crowded shopping centers, gosh-awful traffic, and all the extraneous stuff that comes with the season. more

The following is a response to a letter to the editor from Joyce Hale published on December 3, 2024. more

School sports in small towns are experienced differently than in large cities. more

In high school, I was not the rabble-rouser sort of teen. No fast-and-furious hot rod for me nor getting drunk on weekends. more

Letter To Editor Mike Pence warned us. Bill Barr warned us. Chris Christie warned us. Liz Cheney warned us. Dick Cheney warned us. Hillary Clinton warned us. Michael Cohen warned us. more

Today is my birthday, I’m almost 40 and I feel it. more

How do you not know how amazing you are? more

Well, I wasn't going to run this until next week, but then Mrs. Robye Lindsey died, and the air left the room again. Is 2024 just taking all the good ones? I thought 2023 was savage, but here we are. more

I don’t want to upset the Thanksgiving apple cart, but let’s be honest here. When I was five years old, I couldn’t find anything to be thankful for. They sent us outside right after daylight so we wouldn’t disrupt the grownups as the ladies prepared the meal and the men gathered in the living room to talk crops, hog prices, and stuff. more

David Paschall wrote in my seventh-grade yearbook, “As you slide down the banister of life, remember me as a splinter in your ca-rear!” more

I went to a wedding “here while back” (which is West Tennessee parlance for “some time ago,” it could be two days, two weeks…or two years) where 65 pounds of green beans were cooked for the reception afterward. more

Dear Editor, McKenzie needs The McKenzie Banner because of its experience of more than a century of honestly and effectively publishing the news and events of interest to its readers. more

Dear McKenzie Banner: Thank you so much for the article about the ginning company in McLemoresville. more

My dear sweet Christian Mother did not like Halloween. She found it distasteful. Mom would never use the word hate, mind you. But I believe it was borderline there an October or two back in our formative years… more

The school playgrounds of my childhood had four things to play on: monkey bars, a swing, a slide, and a seesaw or teeter-totter. more

We didn’t go to the movies in 1955. We went to the picture show. ’Course, that was if we could rustle up 15 cents apiece and Daddy didn’t need us for the afternoon. We’d make a beeline for the old Park Theatre. It was only a little over a mile to town. We ran most all the way…about as excited as we could get. more

We should’ve never met. more

Thank you to everyone that attended the Centennial Business Coffee on September 18. It was such a blessing to see you all. We loved welcoming you into our business and spending time together. more

We should’ve never met. more

Over the weekend, a few posts went viral concerning a man that was booked into Henry County Jail on Sunday afternoon on a $50,000 bond. The man is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after he took photos from various women’s and children’s social media accounts and reposted them to his account with lewd comments on some. The Henry County Sheriff’s office has the man in custody and is investigating. more