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By GREG GAST

What is memory?
Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action.
Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that people consciously call to mind as well as the ingrained knowledge that surfaces without effort or even awareness.

Tuesday, Oct. 1

• Sopchoppy community dinner is held every week at the Towles House at 6:30 p.m.
• Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 6:30 p.m. at 54 Ochlockonee St.
• Yoga Flow with Nellie at 6 p.m. Classes are $12, packages available at New Posh on 3079 Crawfordville Hwy. RSVP to newposh3079@gmail.com or text/call at (850) 528-5838

By BRIAN ENGLISH

A money market fund, not to be confused with a money market account, is a type of mutual fund that invests in instruments like cash equivalents and short-term debt-based securities, which can also include U.S. Treasury Bonds.

By Elizabeth Smith. Originally published in the November 1963 issue of the Magnolia Monthly.

The most colorful, as well as the most despised, era of Wakulla county’s past was the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War, from 1866 to 1870. H. Clay Crawford’s account of this time when scalawags and carpetbaggers from the North administered the affairs of the county, goes as follows:

By SLIM RANDLES

“Mavis, dear, is that coffee HOT this morning?”
“Sure is, Windy.”
“Well then, slaver a bunch of it in a cup and flop it down here in front of a freezin’ guy, would you? Thanks, Hon.”
“Freezing, Windy?”
“Ain’t the first time, Doc, but they never seem any easier as I get older.”
“You want to come in for a checkup later?”

By AL HARTMAN
The Old Pro

Hope you all are doing well. Boy, time just seems to be on wings.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Federal fishery has opened recreational Red Snapper season, weekends only, Sept. 1 and runs until Nov. 30.
They also opened Snook season starting Sept. 1 and closes Nov. 30.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

The Wakulla County Commission ordered a countywide mandatory evacuation ahead of landfall of Tropical Storm Helene, which is projected to be a Category 3 hurricane with storm surge estimated to be 10 to 15 feet.

Staff Report

As of Monday afternoon, it was Tropical Cyclone 9.

By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida

TALLAHASSEE – As Tuesday’s presidential debate drew tens of millions of national viewers, much of the action in Florida this week was in the courts.
An appellate-court panel heard arguments in a two-state legal battle between Florida State University and the Atlantic Coast Conference over issues such as sports media rights.