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Suggestions for Social Security

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Although contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and employer sponsored plans (401k) have advantages over participation in Social Security, the fact is that we don’t have  much choice in the matter and most of us have to participate.
In 2012 photographer and friend Wayne Morgan wanted to produce a children’s book to encourage better stewardship of Georgia’s rivers, especially the Little Satilla near his home in Brantley County. I volunteered to write the story in the voice of his grandson Kase. Knowing that Jimmy Carter, as a boy, loved fishing in the Little Satilla with his father, I asked the 39th president to endorse our book. Here is what’s on the back cover of Kase for the Environment (left): “The Satilla Rivers were one of my favo

In 2012 photographer and friend Wayne Morgan wanted to produce a children’s book to encourage better stewardship of Georgia’s rivers, especially the Little Satilla near his home in Brantley County. I volunteered to write the story in the voice of his grandson Kase. Knowing that Jimmy Carter, as a boy, loved fishing in the Little Satilla with his father, I asked the 39th president to endorse our book. Here is what’s on the back cover of Kase for the Environment (left): “The Satilla Rivers were one of my favo

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Jimmy Carter leaves 100-year legacy of making world better

Dink NeSmith
Thursday, January 9, 2025
*Editor’s note: A version of this column was first published on Oct. 3, 2024, commemorating President Carter’s 100th birthday.   In 2017 three black SUVs streaked by our older son’s truck on South Georgia’s Corridor Z. His wife, Heather, turned and said, “Alan, there goes President and Mrs.
Pictured in April 2017 at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains with the now late former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the late former President Jimmy Carter are (L-R) Shane Scoggins, Rose Scoggins, Angela Scoggins and Marlie Scoggins.

Pictured in April 2017 at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains with the now late former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the late former President Jimmy Carter are (L-R) Shane Scoggins, Rose Scoggins, Angela Scoggins and Marlie Scoggins.

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Striving to be like Jimmy Carter

Rose Scoggins - Editor and Publisher
Thursday, January 9, 2025
*Editor’s note: A portion of this column was previously written for a March 1, 2023 edition of The Elberton Star after it was announced former President Jimmy Carter had entered into hospice care.
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For 2025, here’s my Don’t-Do List

Dink NeSmith
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Ready or not, Happy New Year! Have you made a list of 2025 resolutions? I haven’t. Instead, I know what I won’t be doing. That’s an easier list to compile.
Patrick Fargason - Editor/Publisher

Patrick Fargason - Editor/Publisher

A Hart County farewell

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
For a few weeks now, I’ve been formulating a final column to give a proper goodbye to the people and places that made me fall in love with Hart County. However, when I sat down next to my computer over the weekend to compose this piece, former President Jimmy Carter passed away.
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Daddy wanted country music to actually sound country

News Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
My daddy wouldn’t like today’s country music. Well, he’d like some of it, mainly the songs that sound country and with words a man could understand. I recorded the Country Music Awards program on TV several weeks ago, but Daddy wouldn’t have cared for much of it.
Rose Scoggins - Editor/Publisher

Rose Scoggins - Editor/Publisher

Hello, Hart County!

Rose Scoggins - Editor and Publisher
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
I’m absolutely thrilled and honored to be in this position as your new editor/publisher of The Hartwell Sun. My goal with The Sun is to help make our community even stronger by providing a strong newspaper each and every week. As our parent company, Community Newspapers Inc.
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Jimmy Who?

News Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
In the Nov. 4, 1976 edition of The Hartwell Sun, editor Bill Bridges penned the editorial titled, “Jimmy Who,” which commented on the election of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
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Man plans and God laughs

News Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
As a new year unfolds, take a moment to reflect on these words from Paul, “Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead” (Philippians 3:13 NASB). Dividing that verse into thirds, take a moment to focus on the following.
Columnist Greg Cullum (seated far left) attended a family reunion lunch following a trip to Greenville’s Costco.

Columnist Greg Cullum (seated far left) attended a family reunion lunch following a trip to Greenville’s Costco.

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Costco and family

News Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
My wife and I made our monthly pilgrimage to Costco in Greenville recently.