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The Linn County Fairgrounds in Albany will be bustling with thousands of people visiting the annual county fair. Organizers say food, performances and fun will be abundant – but community
Those Who Served: North Sewickley Twp. native served military, medicine, politics By Louise Carroll Special to The Ledger NORTH SEWICKLEY TWP. – Township native Dennis Shingleton has spent his adult life serving his country and his community. The 1965 Riverside High School graduate has served in the Navy, the Army and as a city councilman and mayor pro-tem of Fort Worth, Texas, the 13th largest state in the United States. Shingleton's journey began when he was attending Duquesne University and got a low number in the draft. "I was certain I didn't want to go in the Army. My father had been ...
Alabama Newscenter Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens. Fred D. Gray Sr. can. The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known most of the most-respected figures in the modern movement toward equality for Blacks. He represented Parks and King, persuading judges to make rulings that helped shape both of their lives. Gray’s courtroom victories led to many of the most important gains in reducing the vast disparity in rights that was a reality in America when he opened his first law office ...