DEAR HARRIETTE: I'm having a dilemma with my best friend. Lately, I've been embarrassed by her increasingly rude behavior toward service workers. We recently went to a restaurant, and she was unbelievably disrespectful. She ordered her food, and when it came, she kept asking where her smoothie was. They said it should be on the way, but it wasn't because she never actually ordered it. She kept badgering the staff about it and eventually got the free smoothie she was angling for.

A year since the Environmental Protection Agency announced new guidelines for developing and maintaining service line inventories for water systems in cities across the U.S., the City of Clinton is beginning its plan to inventory its water system and address any found lead pipes over the next year.

Corn Bible Academy choir students from left Braxton Driskill, Annalise Bull, Lillian Miller and Jessica Walker were each awarded a place in an All-State vocal chorus that will perform in January.