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Monday, October 31, 2016NATCHITOCHES – Visitation is Thursday evening with a Friday morning funeral in Arcadia for legendary Northwestern State basketball star George McConathy, whose nephew Mike is the veteran NSU head coach. McConathy, 82, a native of the McConathy family's hometown of Bryceland in Bienville Parish, passed away Monday after a lengthy illness. Visitation is Thursday from 5-7 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1680 First Street in Arcadia. A 10 a.m. funeral will be held there Friday, followed by internment with full military honors at the Williamson Cemetery in nearby Sailes. McConathy was an educator, coach and businessman. He was a 1982 inductee in Northwestern's N-Club Hall of Fame, and was also a Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame member. He still ranks 10th all-time in scoring in Demon basketball history with 1,436 points in 116 games from 1951-56, an average of 12.4 per game. McConathy stands ninth all-time in rebounding with 715, a career 6.2 average. During McConathy's career, the Demons post...
Monday, July 18, 2016Watkins: Reflections at an uncle's funeralBut is Macon really worse off than the poorest towns in surrounding states? Places like Prichard, Alabama; Hope, Arkansas; Natchitoches, Louisiana; Thomson, Georgia; New Tazewell, Tennessee.“I took a statistics class at Mississippi State,” said Katherine Mickens, a social worker at the Noxubee Medical Complex and a 1982 graduate of MSU. “I learned that you can take statistics and make them look just about any way you want them to.”“Macon has suffered economically over the past 15 years,” Boyd said. “But no way are we the poorest town in the U.S. That’s just crazy and not even worth arguing.”(story continues after photo)Social worker Katherine Mickens talks about her hometown of Macon. (Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger)Said Buz McGuire, a 59-year-old alderman and jewelry store owner: “It’s more to living than numbers. They don’t tell the whole story.”They don’t tell that when McGuire arrived home the other day, he found a sack filled with homegrown tomatoes hanging on his door knob, compliments of a neighbor.They don’t tell that a woman called him Wednesday and said she was going to drop off a few things from her garden, plus a dozen fresh eggs from her hen.And they don’t tell everyday occurrences like this one: “My wife,...
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Monday, October 31, 2016NATCHITOCHES – Visitation is Thursday evening with a Friday morning funeral in Arcadia for legendary Northwestern State basketball star George McConathy, whose nephew Mike is the veteran NSU head coach. McConathy, 82, a native of the McConathy family's hometown of Bryceland in Bienville Parish, passed away Monday after a lengthy illness. Visitation is Thursday from 5-7 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1680 First Street in Arcadia. A 10 a.m. funeral will be held there Friday, followed by internment with full military honors at the Williamson Cemetery in nearby Sailes. McConathy was an educator, coach and businessman. He was a 1982 inductee in Northwestern's N-Club Hall of Fame, and was also a Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame member. He still ranks 10th all-time in scoring in Demon basketball history with 1,436 points in 116 games from 1951-56, an average of 12.4 per game. McConathy stands ninth all-time in rebounding with 715, a career 6.2 average. During McConathy's career, the Demons post...
Monday, July 18, 2016Watkins: Reflections at an uncle's funeralBut is Macon really worse off than the poorest towns in surrounding states? Places like Prichard, Alabama; Hope, Arkansas; Natchitoches, Louisiana; Thomson, Georgia; New Tazewell, Tennessee.“I took a statistics class at Mississippi State,” said Katherine Mickens, a social worker at the Noxubee Medical Complex and a 1982 graduate of MSU. “I learned that you can take statistics and make them look just about any way you want them to.”“Macon has suffered economically over the past 15 years,” Boyd said. “But no way are we the poorest town in the U.S. That’s just crazy and not even worth arguing.”(story continues after photo)Social worker Katherine Mickens talks about her hometown of Macon. (Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger)Said Buz McGuire, a 59-year-old alderman and jewelry store owner: “It’s more to living than numbers. They don’t tell the whole story.”They don’t tell that when McGuire arrived home the other day, he found a sack filled with homegrown tomatoes hanging on his door knob, compliments of a neighbor.They don’t tell that a woman called him Wednesday and said she was going to drop off a few things from her garden, plus a dozen fresh eggs from her hen.And they don’t tell everyday occurrences like this one: “My wife,...
