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Looking forward to becoming part of #OneHartBeat
News Staff
As a lover of history, the story of Hartwell’s namesake Nancy Morgan Hart has always fascinated me.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Opinion & Editorial
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Baptism
News Staff
Have you noticed; the gospels show John baptizing. The gospel writers do not explain why John is baptizing. They expect the reader to know the process of baptism and why John is doing it.
Where did John get the idea to fully immerse people in water? Notice John is from a priestly lineage.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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America, America, God Shed His Grace on Thee
News Staff
These are very perilous times! The reason I continue to write about my concern for America is because I love this country so much and because I see little evidence that the average American has any idea of the immediate and incredible danger in which we find ourselves.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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Local News is Good for Business
News Staff
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support Act, that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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Racetracks and Racers
News Staff
When I was a child my father and I would sometimes go to automobile races at various dirt tracks in the area. We attended races in Toccoa, Hartwell, Lavonia and Banks County speedways in Georgia along with Anderson, Greenville-Pickens and Westminster Speedways in South Carolina.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Kind actions by law enforcers also deserve attention
News Staff
If you have seen the old Andy Griffith Show on television, no doubt you’ve seen Otis, the town drunk who checked himself into Sheriff Andy’s jail after he’d had a few too many.
Years ago, Rabun County jail in Clayton, had its own Otis.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
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One of America’s most feared and revered trial lawyers lived in Summerville
Dink NeSmith
(Note: What’s one of the easiest things do? Procrastinate. What’s one of the hardest things to not do? Don’t procrastinate. In 2013, Larry Walker and I quit procrastinating and launched a Legends Tour. All three legendary friends—Bert Lance, Bobby Lee Cook and Zell Miller—are now gone.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
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Trust Jesus
News Staff
We must respond appropriately to each disappointment.
Many times, we cope by putting up defenses. We say, “I will never get hurt again.” So, we love less. We reject others before they can reject us. This is not the best response.
We must commit ourselves to Christ and rise above each difficulty.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Our family—all 16 of us—love basking in the natural wonders of Georgia’s outdoors. Sunrise on the coast of the Golden Isles is a special time of day. And it’s an extra special time for our son, Alan, to take his sons, William and Fenn, fishing in the surf of Cumberland Island. As soon as all eight of our grandchildren could walk, they were holding fishing poles.
Georgia is always on my mind
Dink NeSmith
The fascination came early.
Even before I could drive, I was addicted.
Decades later, I am still like a kid in a candy store. I struggle to decide which I like best. That’s why I can never get enough.
When Emily was in pigtails, we would slip through the Altamaha River swamp in a skiff.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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Finding the funding for Georgia highways
News Staff
Wounds were still being licked this time 10 years ago.
A year earlier, the ballyhooed effort to implement a new transportation tax had been thumped at the ballot box in most parts of Georgia, including in metro Atlanta where the need for new infrastructure was dire.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023