Julie Hohmann Morrow/Contributing Photographer Silas Morrow has been diagnosed with an underdeveloped airway, otherwise known as esophageal atresia.

From left, Jessie Anderson, Diane Myers and Kevin Garrett. Myers’ character Tonya Bristow gives a series of pro-woman “sermons” to her radio director, Harlan Bean (Garrett), and her husband Branford (Anderson) during ACT2’s current production of The Radio Play Disaster.

Sam Jokich/Staff Correspondent Hot summer cars: Andrews Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7620 held its sixth annual Hot Summer Nights car show fundraiser on Aug. 23 along Main Street downtown. It looked like a good time was had by all cooling down on a warm day.

Wreck: One vehicle ran into another, pushing the vehicles into a third one, on July 17 at the intersection of U.S. 19/74 and Peachtree Street in Murphy. Serious damages and multiple injuries were reported.

Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Members of ACT2 are staging The Radio Play Disaster at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. A wild take on what happens when an “invasion” coincides with a local broadcast, the play is directed by Kevin Garrett (at podium). Showtimes are also at 7 p.m. Sept. 12-13, with matinees at 3 p.m. Sunday and Sept. 14. From left are Shayla Dyer; Fuzzy; Michael Williams; Maggie McGrady and Diane Myers. The cast includes several first-time actors as well as many veterans of ACT2 performances. T

Phillip Davis/Contributing Photographer Dominic Miguel was the first person to try out the new slides at Konehete Veterans Park in Murphy.

Photos by John Altenbernd/Contributing Photographer The Rev. Tim Huff of Murphy Free Methodist Church baptizes Johnny Walker into Christ on Aug. 2 in the Valley River, as church members watch from the nearby bridge. While the water isn’t as clear as it used to be, many folks say getting baptized in the river outside in nature brings them a greater sense of spiritual peace.

Nathaniel Johnson, 8, with his mother, Felisha Johnson, shows off the cut he suffered trying to rescue cats from a fire. Nathaniel saw the smoke and alerted his family and others, hastening their escape