Pre-Playoff Interview with Coach Wright

Coaches – Community Proud of the Dawgs by James Phillips DORA — After taking over a team that had finished 2-28 in three years, Dora head coach Johnny Wright has…

Dora Bulldogs Hold off Susan Moore 14-7

The Dora Bulldogs faced their biggest challenge of the season on Friday night as they defeated Susan Moore in the first round of the playoffs. This was a very hard…

Homecoming 2002

Amber Snider crowns new homecoming queen, Jenny Smith Dawgs Crush Holly Pond 55-6, Move to 9-0! The day was cloudy, but it did not dampen the spirits. Lots of people…

Halloween, A Fun Childhood Memory

I’m not sure when it happened… Halloween becoming an evil holiday. I mean, when I was a kid, it was right up there with Christmas. I mean you could dress…

Helping Our Troops

A report on ABC 33/40 last week said that 3,000 troops from Alabama are in Afghanistan. There are several men and women from our area serving there. Having been in…

Cheers to Dora High School

by Asa Faith Randolph Class of 61 Because I have been reading all the interesting pieces that have been written for our website, I have been made aware of something…

Charles Beersdorf Gives First-hand account of Six-Day War 1967

The Six-Day War of Jews and Arabs From Ground Zero in Cairo, Egypt by Chief Yeoman Charles Theodore Beersdorf, USN, Retired The weather was hot and dry that first day…

High School Not Nirvana For All

I loved high school. There with all my friends in the ebb and flow of small town life, I was somewhat insulated from the world outside and the worst thing…

Sandra Stricklen Interview

Julie Rhodes Sumner took up the challenge to locate Sandra Stricklen, a former teacher who retired from Dora High School after twenty three years (she taught for a total of…

My Daddy Taught Me to Cuss

by Rick Watson(This story ran in the Birmingham Post Herald on April 14th of 2002) My daddy, rest his soul, taught me how to cuss. Not that he sat down…