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Masked Observer bows at the crossroads of reverence and revelry Updated Feb 13, 2021; Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local scene. Minutes into the golden hour of dusk, a lone figure slowly made her way along the perimeter of Mardi Gras Park, past the Carnival Museum’s perennial porch display and beyond the revitalized dens of the Mystics of Time and Infant Mystics. The solemn soul perambulated Church Street, Oakleigh and the Avenue, and beheld Mardi Gras visages erected by those whose hearts continue to strike Carnival’s communal beat, even if their feet, hands and voices cannot. ....
Sergeants, sons, nurses, mothers: Stories of the 10,000 Alabama lives lost to COVID Updated on Mar 03, 2021; Published on Dec 16, 2020 Senior center director Vanessa McKinney speaks at a memorial service for the late Mayor Billy Joe Driver in Clanton, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Driver s death of COVID-19 shocked the central Alabama community, where residents say many people thought the illness caused by the new coronavirus was a big-city problem until he succumbed. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) AP Twitter Share Those lives are more than numbers. They were war heroes. Police officers and prison inmates. Politicians and pastors. Medical workers and musicians. They were educators. They were couples who spent decades together only to die days, or even minutes, apart. ....