And then somebody had to go and invent glazed croissants.

I can resist hot Krispy Kremes, as delightful as they are, since we don’t have a Krispy Kreme shop in Pickens County, but it’s hard to avoid the bakery aisle at Ingles, especially if you’re hungry.

Those things taste as good to me as Charles Aiken’s birdseed must have tasted to the bear that had taken to raiding the feeders in his yard in downtown Pickens recently.

Charles and his neighbors off Cedar Rock Street have been visited frequently by a bear — or perhaps by several of them — over the past couple of years, and regularly since last fall, except for a one-month hibernation nap, Charles says.

“That bear came on my porch four times this last week and created

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