Dora Bulldogs

By Jerry GrammarI find it ironic that the song came out a few years after the death of a dear friend who bore an almost identical name. Billy Joe McMurray…

DON’T BE SORRY BE RIGHT!If you ever had Coach Jim Coston as a teacher, you heard those words. If you ever felt like you had made a mistake and said…

Fay Thomas Bobo graduated from Dora High School in 1941. She began college at the University of Alabama in the fall of ’41, but then war broke out and she…

I was surprised and delighted recently when I got an email from Glenn Allen Bobo which said “did you realize that another writer that graduated from Dora has a book…

The following story is one sent to writer Dale Short by Faye Bobo after an article he wrote for The Daily Mountain Eagle about summers in the south. It relates…

Ricky Phillips, Dora High School Class of 1972 is beginning a new and exciting phase of his life. He’s launching his own business. Ricky has worked for CAPSCO Industries in…

I get a lot of stuff in email. A lot of things I file away to use later but this one was so neat, I decided to use it. “I’ll…

When I heard the news about the death of Ray Charles, the first thing that came to my mind is the Sumiton Drive In. You might ask what in the…

James and Andrea Phillips, Class of 1996. We have been married now for five years and have one child, Stone Xander Phillips, who will be two years old this Halloween.…