Opinion & Editorial

Photo by Luke Michael

Photo by Luke Michael

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It’s time for our hateful rhetoric to end

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Last Saturday, the nation wept as former President Donald J. Trump was nearly cutdown by an assassin’s bullet during a political rally in Pennsylvania. While the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks thankfully missed Mr. Trump, local firefighter Corey Comperatore wasn’t so lucky.
U.S Men’s soccer head coach Gregg Berhalter.

U.S Men’s soccer head coach Gregg Berhalter.

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It’s time for a change

Benjamin London - Sports Editor and Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
When I was three-years-old and lived in Watkinsville, Ga., my parents enrolled me in the soccer program at the Oconee County Recreation Department. From that moment until I graduated high school in 2017, I played and loved watching soccer.
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Pastors of the Revolution

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The early settlers of America came for various reasons. Some fled from their past, government persecution, or family conflicts, while others sought religious freedom. In the 16th century, England separated from the Catholic Church, forming the Church of England.
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Let’s pick up after one another

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Hartwell has abundant blessings; a caring community, a strong work ethic, and natural beauty. Today I challenge you to protect that natural beauty. Our town can look messy.
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Leaving Afghanistan

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
In the last couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. It is important to recognize that the evacuation took place under both the Trump and Biden administrations.
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Me and Myles: Two old newspaper guys had good times together

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Myles Robert Godfrey and I were in diapers the first time we met. I think Myles had soiled his, but I didn’t say anything. After all, he was just a month-old. I was a year old. It was inevitable that Myles and I would see a lot of each other over the years.
Sparky, the family’s Treeing Walker hound, spies the fixings for Tallulah chocolate on the NeSmiths’ backyard deck in Habersham County.

Sparky, the family’s Treeing Walker hound, spies the fixings for Tallulah chocolate on the NeSmiths’ backyard deck in Habersham County.

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Time to crank the ice cream churn

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
A childhood treat was going to a Howard Johnson’s restaurant, climbing on a stool and staring at the sign touting 28 flavors of ice cream. And trying not to drool while I decided which one to ask Myrtice Warren to scoop and stack on a sugar cone.
Our 37th president Richard Nixon waving goodbye to Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1974, the day he was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal.

Our 37th president Richard Nixon waving goodbye to Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1974, the day he was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal.

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Richard M. Nixon elementary school

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
From an early age, I would consider myself a connoisseur of presidential history. In the summer of 1984, my family took a vacation to Washington, D.C. where my parents purchased me a set of presidential fact cards from the Smithsonian.
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Filled with the Spirit

News Staff
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
According to D.L. Moody, the renowned evangelist from a previous generation,  “You might as well try to see without eyes, hear without ears, or breathe without lungs, as to try to live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit.”