Opinions

Biden or Trump; not much choice at all

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, May 18, 2023

A recent poll from Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s NORC research center found that 70 percent of Americans, including 44 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of independents, do not want Donald Trump to run for president in 2024.

The possibilities remain endless

Bill Crane

Thursday, May 18, 2023

By all estimations, Cleveland, Ohio, is on the rebound. However, like many of America’s great industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast, it was crippled by the industrial and jobs migration into the Southeast, from the 1970s to the present day.

How technology helped solve the midtown shooting case

Bill Crane

Thursday, May 11, 2023

In the immediate and tragic aftermath of the Midtown Atlanta shooting of five unrelated women in a doctor’s office waiting room on May 3rd, officers from almost every city/ county police agency in metro Atlanta, as well as the Georgia State Patrol, SWAT teams and multiple Sheriff’s offices,...

The bare facts about gardeners shucking more than corn

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, May 11, 2023

The things I do for you.

Missing a couple of good mothers

Ronda Rich

Thursday, May 11, 2023

It is not without a stab of pain that I, sometimes, drive past a spot where once stood a hometown restaurant. Nothing remains of it, other than a paved parking.

Finding some good news in a bad news business

News Staff

Thursday, May 4, 2023

In a Sunday School class I have been attending, the subject of the media’s constant barrage of bad news was discussed.

Wesley Walls

News Staff

Thursday, May 4, 2023

CHARLOTTE – With a population of 874,579 as proclaimed by the last census, the Queen City of Charlotte is the 16th most populous city in the U. S. but maintains a smalltown feel. Like Atlanta in the ’60s. There is traffic, but it is not debilitating.

Letters to the Editor

Russell S. Martin Milledgeville

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Dear Editor, Where do I start? I lie there in bed and all these thoughts race through my head and I know that sleep will not come until I get them on paper, perhaps. I see and I wonder “Does anyone else see or care about what is happening to this once sleepy little town we know as Milledgeville ?”

Mountain quare, Southern eccentric

News Staff

Thursday, May 4, 2023

It has been duly noted here how odd are my ways or how my thinking doesn’t always line up with genuine logic. Any Southerner, born and bred, has charming degrees of eccentricity. In the Southern reach of the Appalachians, however, many of us have a heaping helping of oddness.

Talking politics with Skeeter Skates, Ryo Morning Coffee Club

Dick Yarbrough

Thursday, April 27, 2023

It had been a while since I heard from Skeeter Skates and his colleagues at the Ryo Morning Coffee Club. That ended this week. In case you are new to these parts, Skeeter is the owner and operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.

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