By LORETTA FULTON The Alameda Neighborhood Association hosted its annual patriotic parade June 29 in front of the Alameda Community Center. The festivities were started by the former New Haven Community Church. “Now it’s a neighborhood thing,” said Erica Currie, associate pastor for missions at nearby Pioneer Drive Baptist Church. The church owns the property where the community center
Read moreReligious signs were popular at the June 30 rally for families held in downtown Abilene. In the video, Chesna Riley, co-pastor of Brook Hollow Christian Church, denounces the Trump administration immigration policies. By LORETTA FULTON The voices were loud and clear at a June 30 rally for families in Everman Park in downtown Abilene. The rally, one of hundreds
Read moreBy Dr. PAUL FABRIZIO The retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy and the appointment of his replacement by President Donald Trump will be the biggest battle for a Supreme Court nominee since Clarence Thomas’ nomination in 1991. The stakes are the highest they can be with the balance of power on the Court potentially shifting to a solid
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON As Independence Day approaches amid the fireworks, golf tournaments, trips to the beach and barbeques, there will be some who take time to remember that this is a day which represents the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The colonies firmly stated to England that they would now become a free group and for the first time
Read moreGET AN EARLY START ON FOURTH OF JULY ACTIVITIES If you just can’t wait until July 4 for Fourth of July events, join in the fun on June 29 in the Alameda neighborhood. Pioneer Drive Baptist Church is sponsoring an Alameda Patriotic Parade and other family events 6-8 p.m. Friday June 29. The parade set up begins at 5:30. The
Read moreMusic, scripture, and welcoming words were part of the opening ceremonies for the Original West Texas Baptist Association. Photo by Loretta Fulton By LORETTA FULTON Abilene is honored this week to have the Original West Texas Baptist District Association observing its 115th year of existence at the Abilene Convention Center. Celebrating 104 years alongside the
Read moreBy Dr. DAN STIVER In April, the administration instituted a new policy of dealing with immigrants at the border, which has involved heart-wrenching scenes of forcibly taking children and babies from their parents. This policy was a dramatic change from two previous presidents of both parties, Bush and Obama, over 16 years, including this administration’s own policy for the first
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Our first teachers in life are our parents. They teach us right and wrong, good and bad and how to act. We don’t always listen, but in our learning, we can at times learn a lesson not by their words but by their actions. This is the story of a young woman who took a lesson from
Read more(Editor’s Note: Abilenian Nancy Rangel, a retired elementary school teacher and mother of two, handwrote the following letter and mailed it to all 100 senators. She added her voice to those of others who protested the inhumane separation of mothers and children at the border.) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, This is the United States of America, a nation of
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