Opinion & Editorial

Photo credit: Rod Long

Photo credit: Rod Long

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It is more blessed to give than to receive

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
“In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.
James Moore Sr. outside of The Hartwell Sun.

James Moore Sr. outside of The Hartwell Sun.

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James Moore is loving life

Josh Brannen
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
By Josh Brannen Staff writer   There are all sorts of people in the world that help make it what it is. Some people are builders and some people are movers; some people go and some people stay. Then there are people like James Moore Sr., who does just about everything, and he is loving life.
Photo credit: Magnus S

Photo credit: Magnus S

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Environmental ‘ignorance’ isn’t bliss

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
  True or false: “Ignorance is bliss”? If that was true, I was blissfully ignorant—nestled in my Strand Theater seat—watching cowboy-and-Indian movies during my boyhood Saturdays. And how many times, in backyard play, did you choose to be a cowboy rather than an Indian?
Photo credit: Mae Mu

Photo credit: Mae Mu

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Picking oranges plucks story from Great Depression

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Circa 1935. Soup kitchens. Bread lines. Unemployment almost 25 percent. The Great Depression had America’s stomach gnawing on its backbone. Jobs were hard to come by, but the two youthful brothers always found work.
Photo credit: Simon Maage

Photo credit: Simon Maage

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Celebrating a life full of gratefulness and thanksgiving

Dink NeSmith
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
As family and friends gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, I share my gratitude for this sample of blessings: •For Big Dink and Margie, our parents from the Greatest Generation, who were daily lessons in love, compassion, giving, and the values of hard work and a good name.
William “Bill” Chafin celebrating the Braves’ 2021 World Series championship with wife Kaye.

William “Bill” Chafin celebrating the Braves’ 2021 World Series championship with wife Kaye.

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Bill Chafin is Loving Life

Josh Brannen
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
The Latin expression “carpe diem” or “seize the day” is an ordinary ingredient that leads one to the gates of “vita bona” or “the good life”. William Vernon Chafin Jr.
A big-rig-tanker load of industrial waste, aka soil amendment or sludge, sits along the roadside in Lexington.

A big-rig-tanker load of industrial waste, aka soil amendment or sludge, sits along the roadside in Lexington.

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‘Let there be peace in the valley’

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
If “misery loves company,” the residents of a growing number of North and South Georgia counties aren’t alone. That was obvious at last week’s meeting of the Savannah-Upper Ogeechee Water Council meeting in Elberton.
Photo submitted On Capitol Hill in Atlanta, the state erected a memorial to its veterans and in honor of Gen. Pete Wheeler, who served as commissioner of the Department of Veterans Service from 1948 until his death in 2015.

Photo submitted On Capitol Hill in Atlanta, the state erected a memorial to its veterans and in honor of Gen. Pete Wheeler, who served as commissioner of the Department of Veterans Service from 1948 until his death in 2015.

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Curiosity killed the cat

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Curiosity killed the cat, said my grandmother. Curiosity made me drive to Atlanta in 2011.  All these years later, I am still shaking my head—in amazement—about the legacy of Crawford’s native son, the late Pete Wheeler.