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Editorial: Consider running for local office

News Staff
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
A half-a-dozen seats between the Hartwell City Council and Bowersville Town Council will be on the ballot in November.    Seats up for election include the mayor and three council members in the City of Hartwell and two council members in the Town of Bowersville.
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Opinion: What is the ‘bottom line’ concerning eternal life?

News Staff
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Many churches are teaching a theology of non-accountability by teaching that “Jesus did it all,” and therefore there is nothing that one needs to do to obtain eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven other than recite a short prayer acknowledging Jesus as Savior.
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Opinion: Like a warm breeze

News Staff
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Sometimes they enter our lives quickly but leave just as they came. Sometimes they stay. They are like a warm summer breeze, whisking away our troubles like flower petals on water. To most of us they become symbolic parts of our lives.
The front page of the Aug. 7, 1975 edition of The Hartwell Sun boasted the paper was beginning its 100th year with the printing of that week’s paper. 50 years later, we’re taking their word for it and kicking off celebrating our 150th year. (Photo from the Aug. 7, 1975 edition of The Hartwell Sun)

The front page of the Aug. 7, 1975 edition of The Hartwell Sun boasted the paper was beginning its 100th year with the printing of that week’s paper. 50 years later, we’re taking their word for it and kicking off celebrating our 150th year. (Photo from the Aug. 7, 1975 edition of The Hartwell Sun)

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Editorial: Kicking off 150 years of celebration

News Staff
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Exactly 50 years ago today, Aug. 7, 1975, the front page of The Hartwell Sun boasted we were beginning our 100th year.    If that is the case, today would begin our 150th year.
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Opinion: Charles Barr’s story is about defying the odds

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Have you ever wondered, “Why am I here?”   My high school classmate Patty Barr Sutker did.   And her father’s handwritten notes answered that question.   From the day Charles Barr was born in 1915 in New York City, the odds were against him.
When I needed help choosing light fixtures, Alex Howard—wearing an orange apron—walked up. I was surprised that he was Hubert Howard’s great-grandson. And Alex was surprised that I knew so much about his family. Hubert had been my boyhood Sunday school teacher and later my attorney for decades. (Photo submitted by Dink NeSmith)

When I needed help choosing light fixtures, Alex Howard—wearing an orange apron—walked up. I was surprised that he was Hubert Howard’s great-grandson. And Alex was surprised that I knew so much about his family. Hubert had been my boyhood Sunday school teacher and later my attorney for decades. (Photo submitted by Dink NeSmith)

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Opinion: Alex Howard proves ‘It’s a small world after all’

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
“It’s a world of laughter,  A world of tears. It’s a world of hopes, And a world of fears. There’s so much that we share, That it’s time we’re aware. It’s a small world after all.”   —Lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman   How many times have you heard that tune?