Opinion & Editorial

Submitted photo - Charles Harvey graduated from Odum High School in 1959. Odum Elementary principal Gena Ierardi helped locate this photo from the school’s 1958 yearbook.

Submitted photo - Charles Harvey graduated from Odum High School in 1959. Odum Elementary principal Gena Ierardi helped locate this photo from the school’s 1958 yearbook.

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Penicillin gave him life and a new name

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
When is the last time you had a penicillin shot? Do you remember the first time you received that antibiotic? Charles Harvey doesn’t remember the exact day, but he knows when the wonder drug saved his life. But how did a 2-year-old toddler remember that it was 1944?
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We need to work together on trash issues

News Staff
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Last week, we highlighted the issue of trash accumulating outside businesses in Hartwell at a rate that is getting increasingly difficult for the city to keep up with. This is a long term issue requiring long term solutions particularly as Hartwell continues to grow.
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What are your Father’s Day memories?

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
If you come to my office, you can tell that I like to see and touch things from the past. On the wall behind my desk are two framed maps of Decatur County, in the southwest corner of Georgia. Just above the Florida line is a tiny dot. Recovery is where my father was born on Feb. 8, 1922.
Dan Hunt/The Hartwell Sun - A view from above the Tallulah Falls Gorge.

Dan Hunt/The Hartwell Sun - A view from above the Tallulah Falls Gorge.

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Finding peace in the Appalachians

Dan Hunt
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
We’re mountain people now, my wife and I, at least I think we are. If there’s some sort of initiation, like a Clif Bar-and-CamelBak challenge, we missed that memo.
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I stepped in ‘it’

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
As my fingers were flying over the keyboard, I stepped in “it.” And I didn’t realize my goof until a reader reminded me that the elite Blue Angels were Navy and not Air Force pilots. Duh. I knew that when I wrote last week about the purple martins swirling over the grave of our beloved dog Amos.
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No-hitters are losing their mystique

Dan Hunt
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
We’ve seen eight no-hitters in the last five months of Major League Baseball dating back to last season. That’s unfortunately not a good thing. Nostalgia is one of the national pastime’s most endearing qualities, and you lose it when those special moments become commonplace.