Downtown seeing strong momentum

If you haven’t been to downtown Hartwell in a while, you should check it out. It might not look exactly how you remember it, and that is a good thing.

Churchill had good advice for worrywarts

If you are prone to be a worrywart, 2020 is your kind of year. Consider COVID-19, the economy, our nation’s hell-bent-to-implode-over-polarization mindset, civil unrest, the endless Middle East conflict and the ever-nagging China question.

Mask up for the good of Hart County

We have been fortunate in Hart County to have seen a relatively few number of total cases of COVID-19 compared to many other places. We are still among the lower end of the rates of infection per 100,000 people in Georgia.

The time has come to heal

One hundred fifty-one days into 1900 — May 31 — Ezra and Susie McNeal welcomed a baby girl, Essie. In 1910 the family bounced, in a wagon, from lower Alabama to Baker County, Georgia. Word was that schools were better on this side of the Chattahoochee River.

Graduation was different but still memorable

Some things are definitely better late than never. That much was proven on Saturday, July 18, when the roughly 230 graduates in the Hart County High School Class of 2020 gathered to turn their tassels and officially bring their high school careers to a close.

Aunt Sarah is a star at her nursing home

By Phil Hudgins One of the poignant scenes of the COVID-19 pandemic is staged outside windows of nursing homes all over the nation. Friends and relatives gather there to visit, without physically touching, their loved ones, held captive in their rooms by the virus.

No plan will be perfect for school

Hart County Charter System administrators and board of education members are facing a tall task. Make that many tall tasks. They have been facing them since the novel coronavirus pandemic changed everything about our daily lives.

Day on the lake prompts pontoon dreams

Knowing the details of a deal is paramount, a fact I learned well this past holiday weekend.

Voters in District 1 deserve representation

There has been a vacant seat at Hart County Board of Commissioners meetings since this past November, and it is time to fill it.  District 1 commissioner R.C.

First Amendment sparks justice, change

By Lisa Cupid/Georgia First Amendment Foundation Georgia’s new hate crimes law is welcome and long overdue. But as the headlines marked this historic moment last week, I kept thinking about what finally forced change in Georgia.