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photographs dating from this week published as late as the 4th of July. Just kidding, I hope.

Pericles, for whom the Ponchatoula Mardi Gras krewe is named said something in 430 B.C. that bears listening to today, as serious elections loom on the calendar. Listen: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!”

One of the photos that did not make it into this week’s paper features the big bandaged foot of Mike Whitlow. How did it get that way? We are pledged to absolute silence. But you could ask . . .

Will Rogers was my kind of news reporter. He once said, “I don't make jokes I just watch the government and report the facts.”

I know some of you search continually for signs of the Apocalypse. Well, in cased you missed it, bachelor-for-life Clint Burns is now a married man. Congratulations.

Old Winston Churchill had a way with words. He once said of a man, “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

It was as if a spaceship flew over Antique City in the middle of the night

and beamed up Subway. Thankfully, they enlarged it and set it gently down near the Microtel, if you had been wondering.

S&H Auction is trying to recreate the glory days of Stanley Cowen’s Ponchatoula Auctions, March 28 and March 29 at the American Legion Hall. It will be a miscellaneous auction, always a great mystery, and a better show. Be on the ground floor as history tries to repeat itself. See page three for details. (Now if only they could bring back the Hayride Concerts that Stanley hosted here with Loretta Lynn, George Jones and all the greats, oh la!)

By OLE HARDHIDE/ The Alligator

Unlike previous episodes, the current “Berry Wars” raging on main street are to be encouraged. How low can a flat of the world’s best fruit go? This is a great year for it, as all the farmers seem to be offering different varieties of strawberries. It is a sampler’s paradise.

Mark Twain said it in 1866 and still it is true: No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Ole Pinchpenny and all the Times photographers chose this week to take an endless supply of pictures. It so happens that this is one of those in-between editions with little or no room, so brace yourselves for Easter Stroll and Chamber After Hours and Derick Hingle sports

Robin Austin showing off her cowgirl boots during the 2nd Annual Easter Bonnet Parade in downtown Ponchatoula

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