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St. Andrews to study homelessness

News Staff
Thursday, September 26, 2024
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is beginning a yearlong study of housing insecurity or homelessness in Hart County. Our goal is to identify causes, complications, etc. and educate our members on the issues that contribute to homelessness.
When I entered the business in 1971, one of the first newspaper families that I met were the Maxwells in Oglethorpe County. After graduating from the University of Georgia and a short time working elsewhere, Ralph Maxwell Jr. came home to eventually take over The Oglethorpe Echo from his father, Ralph Sr. Following Ralph’s stroke in recent years, he began to slow down. I was not surprised when he called to tell me of his plans to close the 147-year-old newspaper.

When I entered the business in 1971, one of the first newspaper families that I met were the Maxwells in Oglethorpe County. After graduating from the University of Georgia and a short time working elsewhere, Ralph Maxwell Jr. came home to eventually take over The Oglethorpe Echo from his father, Ralph Sr. Following Ralph’s stroke in recent years, he began to slow down. I was not surprised when he called to tell me of his plans to close the 147-year-old newspaper.

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A newspaper is the glue that holds a community together

Dink NeSmith
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Three years ago, I got a Monday-afternoon phone call. Little did I know that 1,095 days ago my first crack at retirement—about 65 days—was over. Calling was my friend of a half-century, Ralph Maxwell, editor and publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo.
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Relax, It’s Just DEFCON 3 Thunder

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Thursday, September 26, 2024
My wife Janet and I are the keepers of two indoor cats, Sissie and Sally. They are sisters, likely with different fathers but a shared mother. They have been with us since they were kittens, almost thirteen years, now.
Photo by Joel Moysuh

Photo by Joel Moysuh

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A not-so speedy delivery

News Staff
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Earlier this week, a man walked into our office to show us something he couldn’t believe. He received a letter in the mail last week that was postdated from the United States Postal Service’s new Regional Distribution Center in Palmetto on June 4.
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Darth Vader, my hero

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
In May of 1977, two short months after I was born, George Lucas released his science fiction epic Star Wars upon the masses. To say I’m a child of Star Wars is an understatement. If you were to call me a Star Wars geek, I’d pick that insult up, and carry it like a badge of honor.
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Christians should vote

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
I read a letter to the editor in last week’s paper that encouraged all Christians to involve themselves in the political process and vote in the upcoming elections. I think that is good advice, not just for Christians, but for all Americans.
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Stop interfering in Bowersville

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Why do non-residents of Bowersville (outside agitators who do not pay taxes in Bowersville) and the Hart County Commissioners (none of whom live within the city limits of Bowersville) continue to interfere with the governance of this legislatively created local municipality?
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Do the right thing

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
It’s been three plus weeks since the Hart Chamber’s Executive Committee, made — by all accounts — a capricious and arbitrary personnel decision in firing Executive Director Lindsey Ingle without consulting the other nine members of its Board of Directors, and then compounded that error by going,...
Porches are a prominent feature of homes in Chautauqua. As you walk the tree-lined paths through neighborhoods, you hear lively discussions punctuated with laughter. There is a variety of scheduled “porch chats” on specific topics, but most are impromptu visits among friends—old and new. This photo was taken from the porch of our hosts, Erroll and Elaine Davis. We met in 2008 when Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed me to the Board of Regents and Erroll was chancellor.

Porches are a prominent feature of homes in Chautauqua. As you walk the tree-lined paths through neighborhoods, you hear lively discussions punctuated with laughter. There is a variety of scheduled “porch chats” on specific topics, but most are impromptu visits among friends—old and new. This photo was taken from the porch of our hosts, Erroll and Elaine Davis. We met in 2008 when Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed me to the Board of Regents and Erroll was chancellor.

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There’s another way to spell ‘eutopia’

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Is it eutopia or utopia? I’m no scholar. But in Greek, “utopia” translates to “no place,” which can only be found in books. I’m not talking about that one. My topic is on “eutopia,” a “good place” where happiness flows and everything is almost perfect. Impossible? Not if you know where to go.
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Kaleidoscope of Love

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
I was recently doing my morning walk, wearing my ear buds, when I heard them play an old love song. In the song the singer was extolling his undying love for his lady friend. And I got to thinking about the word “love”.