Oconee Heights to be revitalized

Dear Editor,The Department of Community Affairs approved Baldwin County’s 2025 Revitalization Area Strategy for Oconee Heights.

Support Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook

State Representative Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. issues a strong statement of support for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook, a proud Milledgeville native, in response to recent calls for her resignation from former President Donald Trump.Cook, who joined the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in...

Presidential thoughts from the coffee club

When I saw the phone jump off the cradle, I knew immediately who it was. Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.

Back in 1937

When she talked about those tribulations back in 1937, her feeble voice crackled with both age and emotion.

Thoughts on heading off to college

I remember it as if it were yesterday. In fact, it has been a lot of yesterdays — and I mean a lot — since I first walked on the campus of the University of Georgia. My parents dropped me off at my dorm, then headed back to East Point, some 70 miles away.

Roosevelt and the ‘governmint’ cheese

Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of president.He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled but not in the way that turned him mean.

Repeal Georgia’s Voucher Law

When the Georgia General Assembly passed the “Georgia Promise Scholarship” voucher program, it was marketed as a lifeline for struggling students.

Mr. President, you have the wrong number

Uh Oh. If I was the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I might want to get out of town real soon or preferably out of the country.

The marble girl

It’s no secret – in fact, it’s becoming “fabled” pretty quickly – that Tink and I come from worlds as far apart as Mars and Jupiter.He is descended from Mayflower Pilgrims who, for generations, were well-respected New Englanders who then, in modern times, took a ride across the country to find...

Reading about illness can make you sick

I feel anxious telling you this because I fear you will be depressed when you hear it, but you and I seem to be a bunch of hypochondriacs.