Make your voice be heard next month about toxic coal ash

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. The clock is ticking down for 2021. The ticking is also for Jan. 10, 2022, the Georgia’s General Assembly’s opening day. I have a request.

A return to ‘normalcy’ in 2021

We’re still in the weeds of a pandemic and policy debates/divisiveness surrounding it. But in reflection, we think Hart County’s 2021 can be remembered notably as a year of returns and resiliency. Particularly with community events, 2021 was a year defined by pent up excitement and exuberance.

Resolutions for 2022 we ‘can’ all keep

My predecessor, who I have a lot of respect for, wrote a column this time a year ago titled “New Year’s resolutions I won’t keep,” and I figured I’d keep that tradition alive with an alteration. I think a lot of us have a track record of setting goals we can’t follow through with.

Many Christmas traditions have a way of inventing themselves

Sue Crawford Hirsch and Joyce Cloer Viale have not seen each other in 62 years. But they still remember to send a Christmas card every year. The same card. With 62 signatures. It all started in 1959 when Sue and Joyce were freshmen in school in Franklin, North Carolina.

The power of lists

When I was a working woman, everyday I made a list of things I needed to get done. Lunch with a volunteer, team meeting, visit nursing home, write Thankful Friday email, calls or texts to make or return.

She did it again

Reference is made here to a previous article of mine that The Hartwell Sun printed on March 29, 2018 entitled, “The Owl in the Hat.” In that article, I reported on an experience that I had while doing my every-other-day, early morning walk.

The smells of Christmas

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” Yes, indeed. And it’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas, too. Thirty-eight Christmases ago, our younger son, Eric, was quoted by radio personality Paul Harvey. I had been sending him a weekly edition of our newspaper.

No harm in implementing ‘mimosa’ law, others

We understand the importance of Sundays in Hartwell, and keeping religion and family central to that day of the week, but we also find the recent request from local businesses to be well within reason.

Meeting an angel in line at Walmart

I was in Walmart at the service desk waiting, waiting, did I say waiting? when I made eye contact with a beautiful lady behind me. There was only one cashier and two lines were sort of feeding together and she was at an angle behind me.

A Christian story: Are you Jesus?

I knew a man, who on Christmas day, delivered food to a poor group of country folks. After delivering the food, a young boy, about 7 or 8 years old said to him, “Are you Jesus?