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It’s the little things you take for granted — things like walking your dogs.
After several days of soaking rain, my dogs were looking at me accusingly, as if I had intentionally flipped a switch that brought on the precipitation that kept us inside. They don’t realize I want and need the exercise as much as they do.

Photojournalist Katie Hogin finally has succumbed to one of the hazards of her job — having a tender heart.

After months of going to the county animal shelter to take pictures of adoptable dogs and cats, she finally gave in and took one home herself.

Katie fell for an unusally marked kitten she has given the name of Oliver.

The moniker suits the scrawny little fellow, although we’re sure Ollie will soon fill out and be the strong, happy feline that cats with good forever homes generally grow up to be.

It has been our observation over the years that the readership of this column contains a rare combination of brain power covering numerous fields of intellectual endeavour.

Thus, we have no hesitancy in posing a problem which has occurred to us in recent years and to which we have not heretofore found the answer.

A photo of Randall McCain was featured in the Monday, Nov. 7, edition of Roane County News.

However, if you didn’t know Randall, you wouldn’t have known it was him.

The photo was used at the bottom of Page 1 to tease to a group of photos on an inside page, and it did not include caption information that would have identified him.

While we commonly use this technique to refer to other pictures or articles on inside pages, at least one person was bothered in this instance.