Opinion & Editorial

The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Opening doesn't mean ignoring guidelines

Certain businesses in Hart County and around Georgia are beginning to open their doors to the public again according to the  limitations and guidance from the state to follow social distancing standards.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Reopening comes with risks

If you look carefully, you can see a break in the darkness of the forest it feels like we’ve been lost in since March. But it is just a sliver shining through and there are still some miles to go before we are fully back in the light of day.  Georgia Gov.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Jeopardy an escape back to normalcy

When the world as we know it is turned on its side and our daily routines stop in their tracks, making way for a strange new normal, any vestige of life as we wish it still was is comforting.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Public deserves virus information

As soon as the first local case of COVID-19 was confirmed by the state Department of Public Health on March 27, the questions started pouring in about where the person worked, where they had been and who might have been exposed.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Run on toilet paper doesn't make sense

When it became evident the coronavirus pandemic was going to impact all parts of the country, I knew exactly what to do to keep my wife and me safe — we needed as much toilet paper as we could store. That would surely keep us from ever having to worry about COVID-19.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Kindness will be good medicine

Tough times often bring out the best in people.  We have seen the proof of that in the past couple of weeks as we all try to adapt to a new normal that feels far from it.  People are staying in their homes more, working from home or in many cases not going to work at all.
The Hartwell Sun

The Hartwell Sun

Virus views changed as disease spread

“Ah, it’ll pass and we’ll all be just fine, just like when the swine flu was everywhere.”  That was running through my mind when I first heard a new, novel form of coronavirus, COVID-19, was heading our way.