1. Dan Whisenhunt's account of Anniston's smoking ban.
2. Using the Avondale Mills closings announcement, Crystal Jarvis wrote on how local former (non-Avondale) mill workers are coping.
Here's a sample from Roland Cronan, 83, who worked for decades at the now-shuttered Standard Coosa Thatcher mill in Piedmont:
"We used to sit there on a swing and listen to that cotton mill run, and it would put you to sleep. Now when you sit out here — it’s just quiet."
