Opinion & Editorial

Riddle me this, onion lovers

Friends, put on your thinking cap and join me for a riddle. See if you can figure out whom or rather what this is. I’ll use the term “she” as my friend, so join me and let’s have fun. Our friendship started in my childhood. I learned early on that sometimes she could be strong.
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Help our cemetery

To the editor: How many families in this area have relatives buried in Level Grove Cemetery? There are numerous graves that have been neglected for years so possibly there are no remaining family members here to care for those graves.
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Give us the voucher system

To the editor: Mr. Boger’s letter about school taxes got me thinking. I have been around long enough to know how governments work.

Housing market still presents challenges

There’s a new culprit accused of inflating home prices – investors. The share of U.S. homes sold to real estate investors reached a record 18.4 percent in the final quarter of 2021, according to real-estate firm Redfin. Metro Atlanta had the highest share of any major market: 33 percent.

See you at Thanksgiving

OK, so it won’t be like that. In two months, my son moves into his college dorm, and it’s not like I will kick him out the door and forget him until it’s time to baste the turkey.
Our opinion

Our opinion

Be careful out on the roads

Summer is here in force, and even with gas prices through the roof, folks are going to be traveling around to get where they are going for work and play. We need to be extra careful out there this summer.
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Questions about school tax for seniors

To the editor: I have a question: Why are seniors in our county penalized on property taxes because they need to work to help curb the effects of this high inflation we are all dealing with? I am sure you have noticed the age of some of the employees at Ingles, Lowes and Walmart, just to name a few.
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

We need common sense

To the editor:  Many of us are struggling to find a way to think how we as a nation could put a stop to another mass school shooting, or church shooting, or store shooting. Perhaps we cannot. But could we at least try to lesson the chances?