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With no drought relief in sight, Coal County remains under a fire ban. That means no burning of any kind is allowed.
Read moreAt the Coalgate Public Library, citizens can borrow books, audiobooks, DVDs, and equipment such as a projector. It offers public Internet computers and early learning computers for children. Library cardholders can use a meeting room and its teleconferencing equipment for free. Students can use the technology and resources for papers and homework assignments. But unless the City of Coalgate, Coal County, or a local group or organization commits to paying for the building’s utilities soon, the Coalgate library will close in January.
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The largest wildland fire that Coal County has experienced in recent history occurred last week near Tupelo.
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Funeral Coalgate of Graveside services for Charlene Nelson of Bartlesville, formerly of Coalgate, will be held Wedn esday (today), September 28, 2022 at 1:00 p.m, at Coalgate Cemetery with Brown’s Service of in charge arrangements.
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Firefighters at the scene of the Tupelo wildland fire on Monday night
Read moreOver 100 years before Americans started spending their days hunched over smartphones, a Post author saw a similar habit developing. Look about you in a railway train, in a street car or bus, you will observe that everyone is reading—men, women, and even the innocent little children. Silent, glum, their eyes glued to book or paper . . . The very act of reading is unsocial. It is a kind of melancholy barbarism. We have such a precious deal of reading to do that conversation is out of the question. We have no time to talk. Conversation is decaying. We are reading ourselves into a silent race. --“The Lost Art of Conversation” by Vance Thompson, June 24, 1899
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