I was at the historic Barry County Courthouse on election night a couple weeks ago and saw community service in action. The Barry County Clerk’s Office enlisted Cassville’s scoutiest youth to help haul in ballot boxes to get some volunteer hours and rank up. These boys handled these ballots so professionally Georgia could take some notes! Shout out to all our local election officials and county clerk’s office staff on running things smoothly. A tree tried to suppress the vote (allegely) in Exeter by falling and killing the power to that precinct, but our folks counted every vote!

Trout Brown is the comics correspondent for the Cassville Democrat, aiming to point out entertaining happenings in Barry County.