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Every career, even newspaper business, comes with risks

News Staff
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Someone asked me the other day if I always wanted to be a journalist. I told him no, I thought I wanted to be an artist. You see, I took this art-by-mail course when I was a kid. But after six months of drawing and painting, I realized I had no talent. I quit the course.
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Kudos to our election staff

News Staff
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Every other week, the members of the Hart County Board of Commissioners give thanks and kudos to the people and things that make Hart County great during their commissioners report. At the Nov. 12 meeting, the first Tuesday following the general election on Nov.
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Thanks for a great Veterans Day parade

News Staff
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
The American Legion Post 109 would like to thank all of the participants and citizens who came to the Veterans Day parade on Nov. 10. This is the second time it has rained, surely next year the third time will be a charm. I would like to thank U.S.
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Maintaining your fall mums

News Staff
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
If you live in the South, there is one way to know that the fall season has officially arrived, and that is when Mums start decorating nurseries, storefronts, and porches. Garden mums, or chrysanthemums, are a member of the daisy family and bring in vibrant fall colors like red, yellow, and orange.
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They’ve Got What?

News Staff
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Normally a friendly and affable young woman, Myra’s only obvious fault was that she was addicted to Mountain Dew soft drinks.  Intelligent and diligent, in her three years with the company she had demonstrated that she was one of its shining stars.
In 2016 my teammate Marcus Waters and I visited during the 50th reunion of Jesup High School’s Class of 1966. As a strong safety for East Tennessee State’s Buccaneers, Marcus helped set a national record for interceptions, and his team won its division’s national championship. Born on Nov. 29, 1947, Marcus died on Nov. 9, 2024.

In 2016 my teammate Marcus Waters and I visited during the 50th reunion of Jesup High School’s Class of 1966. As a strong safety for East Tennessee State’s Buccaneers, Marcus helped set a national record for interceptions, and his team won its division’s national championship. Born on Nov. 29, 1947, Marcus died on Nov. 9, 2024.

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Marcus Waters will always be on my mind

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
As they rolled his polished-oak coffin into place, a recording of “Georgia on My Mind” set the mood of the packed funeral-home chapel. That song is one of my all-time favorites. Inside that casket was a high school classmate and one of my all-time favorite football players, Marcus Waters.
Hart County Board of Education

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Hart County Schools made the right call

News Staff
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
In a 2006 episode of the TV drama The West Wing, the incoming President-elect Matthew Santos and his wife were touring schools for their elementary school children. After touring multiple private schools, Santos explained he wanted his kids to attend a public school in Washington, D.