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12/25/2025

12/03/2025

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Donned in an ill-fitting, hand-me-down red suit and cheap boot covers, Paul Martin, his short hair and beard gray, glanced in the mirror dishearteningly.

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Donned in an ill-fitting, hand-me-down red suit and cheap boot covers, Paul Martin, his short hair and beard gray, glanced in the mirror dishearteningly. He knew everyone at the holiday event for special needs individuals would see him as an imposter. “I didn.....

12/03/2025

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Surrounded by 40 rolls of wrapping paper and hundreds of packages of T-shirts, socks and underwear, Tracey Cater turns on a football game and wraps boxes.

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Surrounded by 40 rolls of wrapping paper and hundreds of packages of T-shirts, socks and underwear, Tracey Cater turns on a football game and wraps boxes. For two weeks every December for the past 12 years, Cater has sorted shirts, socks and underwear and wrapped...

12/03/2025

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As Carlos Gomez began the last lap of his workout, Jane Johnson shouted cheers of encouragement. “Come on Carlos. One more. You can do it,”

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus As Carlos Gomez began the last lap of his workout, Jane Johnson shouted cheers of encouragement. “Come on Carlos. One more. You can do it,” Johnson said. Upon completing the lap, the 52-year-old Gomez placed his dumbbells on the ground and dropped to the floo...

12/03/2025

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On New Year’s Day, Regina Raney, flute in hand, will join several hundred other band directors from across the country to march the 5.5-mile Pasadena Rose Parade in California...

By Catherine Godbey | Staff Writer On New Year’s Day, Regina Raney, flute in hand, will join several hundred other band directors from across the country to march the 5.5-mile Pasadena Rose Parade in California. “I am very excited that I was selected for the Saluting America’s Band Directors p...

10/09/2025

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10/08/2025

Clicks and clacks — the bird-like sounds of tiles clinking against one another — a sound that earned Mahjong, which translates to “Sparrow” its name — provided a sort-of background music as players swapped stories of grandchildren, husbands and upcoming vacations. Wheeler Wildlife Refuge Association - WWRA

Clicks and clacks — the bird-like sounds of tiles clinking against one another — a sound that earned Mahjong, which translates to “Sparrow” its name — provided a sort-of background music as players swapped stories of grandchildren, husbands and upcoming vacations.

10/08/2025

As the faint sound of “Dixie” played on the harmonica drifted through the heavy air of late summer, the Rev. Myron Mooney manned his post behind a wooden table.

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus As the faint sound of “Dixie” played on the harmonica drifted through the heavy air of late summer, the Rev. Myron Mooney manned his post behind a wooden table. Beneath a canvas tent, Mooney regaled visitors with tales from the Civil War. He talked of how Con...

10/08/2025

Sitting in his grandfather’s rocking chair, surrounded by family photographs and shelves lined with books, Harry Moore thumbed through the pages of his latest poetry collection, “We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner.” Calhoun Community College

Sitting in his grandfather’s rocking chair, surrounded by family photographs and shelves lined with books, Harry Moore thumbed through the pages of his latest poetry collection, “We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner.”

10/08/2025

Clad in a long, curly black wig, a pirate’s hat and a hook covering his right hand, Phil Parker stepped onto the Princess Theatre stage as Captain Hook and checked another role off his bucket list. The Princess Theatre

Clad in a long, curly black wig, a pirate’s hat and a hook covering his right hand, Phil Parker stepped onto the Princess Theatre stage as Captain Hook and checked another role off his bucket list.

08/13/2025

When Char Baxter was only 5 and living in Iowa, her parents bought her a paint set for Christmas. As a creative little girl, she immediately took to it.