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The Blotter

News Staff
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The Hart County Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests:   The following is a list of names entered into the booking computer at Hart County Jail for Feb. 18-24, 2025. Names, ages and towns are listed as they appear in the computer. Offenses listed are charges; guilt has not been proven.
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Have you ever been fired?

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The news is full of federal firings. Have you ever been fired? I have. Twice. The first time, it was by a phone call to my Damascus Hilton room in Syria. I was participating in a Middle East Travel seminar. I would be back in three weeks, but Gov. Roy Barnes couldn’t wait. Resign or be tossed.
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Mister Charlie

News Staff
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
*Editor’s Note: Jon Hunt grew up in Nuberg and is a 1965 graduate of Hart County High School. He now lives in Florida and is a Senior Associate with Florida Business Exchange, Inc.   It already felt like mid-July one hot June day in Nuberg, Georgia.
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Who’ll need all of this stuff from 58 years of marriage?

News Staff
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
   As I sit in my tiny, overstuffed study at home, I am almost embarrassed, So much material, so many books, so many clippings, so many letters, files, cabinets. Memorabilia galore. Somebody, or somebodies, will have to go through this overkill after my wife and I are gone.
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Lake Hartwell Association’s annual meeting streaming March 11

News Staff
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Current and perspective members of the Lake Hartwell Association will have the opportunity to participate in the organization’s annual meeting March 11 by watching the live stream at the Hartwell Art Center. The actual event will take place at the Civic Center of Anderson.
Rotary Club of Hartwell members who attended the installation of the new members of the Rotary Club of Lavonia Feb. 6 at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia include (L-R) Mike Everett, Rich Mewborn, Melissa NeSmith, Theo Derleth, Jeff Loggins, Nancy Butler, Debbie Kulcsar, Jason Ford, Mike Alexander, Wyndee McKinnon, Frank Slovenic, Billy Kidd and Brian Metzger. The Lavonia club will be considered a satellite club of the Hartwell club until it reaches 20 members and can apply for its own charter.

Rotary Club of Hartwell members who attended the installation of the new members of the Rotary Club of Lavonia Feb. 6 at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia include (L-R) Mike Everett, Rich Mewborn, Melissa NeSmith, Theo Derleth, Jeff Loggins, Nancy Butler, Debbie Kulcsar, Jason Ford, Mike Alexander, Wyndee McKinnon, Frank Slovenic, Billy Kidd and Brian Metzger. The Lavonia club will be considered a satellite club of the Hartwell club until it reaches 20 members and can apply for its own charter.

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Hartwell Rotary helps establish new Lavonia club

Rose Scoggins - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The Rotary Club of Hartwell has helped expand Rotary’s reach as it sponsored the creation of the Rotary Club of Lavonia Feb. 6. The club is now one of the 45,000 clubs that make up Rotary International, “a global network of more than 1.