A1: "Surgery forces Brownlow to miss marathon"

This is a nice little love-letter for the former supervisor, perfectly suited to a very-small-town paper. I'm sure there are some people out there who think of GB fondly and long for a return to his reign as king of the Supes. No one should have to deal with cancer, particularly with our horrible health-care system. Not sure why it's page-one material, though.

Which reminds me, we heard awhile ago that Bob Bell was getting surgery, but not whether he got better.