breaking news from my weekly hometown newspaper

Wafford Hopper is pictured with a whopper of an ear of corn that he said is just a sample of what he has growing in his front yard garden. The ear, which measured in at more than 18-inches long, is the largest Hopper said he’s ever grown, “and I’ve been growing corn my entire life.” Hopper said he purchased the corn seed at Farmer’s Supply in Henderson, but has done nothing out-of-the-ordinary to this year’s crop. Hopper lives at 145 Parson Lane in Jacks Creek.