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Does God always answer prayer?

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
It is hard to understand fully the incredible love that God has for His children. When we have a very difficult situation in our life, we sometimes tend to neutralize God since He did not answer a previous prayer to our liking.
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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.
The Georgia Department of Transportation is expected to begin brine operations in northeast Georgia Thursday morning.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is expected to begin brine operations in northeast Georgia Thursday morning.

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DOT shares tips for drivers ahead of predicted winter weather impacts

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
With a winter weather system expected to hit the northern half of Georgia early Friday morning, the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) is actively preparing and coordinating brine operations and staffing plans in an effort to respond to the pending threat of icy conditions and snow...
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Funding available for emergency food, shelter programs

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Ninth District Opportunity, Inc. has been awarded federal funds under The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program Phase 42. Hart County has been chosen to receive funding to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.
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Harmony House to hold annual chili cook-off Feb. 8

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The annual Harmony House Child Advocacy Center chili cook-off will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Elberton Civic Center. This fundraising event will benefit victims of Child Physical and Sexual Abuse as well as Adult Sexual Assault and the support services provided for them.
New board members for the Hart County Botanical Garden include (L-R) Vice President Maggie Jackson, President Lauren Peacock and Co-Director Jesse Merkley.

New board members for the Hart County Botanical Garden include (L-R) Vice President Maggie Jackson, President Lauren Peacock and Co-Director Jesse Merkley.

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Botanical Garden introduces new board members

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Hart County Botanical Garden recently announced its new board members, including a new vice president, president and co-director. Maggie Jackson will service as vice president, Lauren Peacock as president and Jesse Merkley as co-director.