Support our economic comeback

Businesses around Habersham County are slowly starting to reopen and offer more services as we inch closer to a world that more closely resembles the one we remember from before COVID-19. The pandemic shutdown has greatly damaged our local, state and national economy.

Letter to the Editor

What my mother meant to me To the editor:  On this another Mother’s Day, I can never forget what my mother meant to me. Growing up on a farm, Mom always worked hard at whatever she did, whether it be on the field, cooking cakes, picking peaches or milking the cows early in the morning.

The people have spoken

Demorest’s odyssey since April 16 has come full circle, as the residents’ pleas were finally heard Tuesday night at the city council’s first successful meeting since March.

Letters to the Editor

Demorest clowning around To the editor: The buffoonery continues in Demorest! Never in my life have I seen such a three-ring circus as the government of Demorest. I still can’t wrap my hands around the looting of the $600,000 and to this day not one person has been indicted for it.

Nurses, we appreciate you!

As young children, we interact with nurses for the first-time during visits for checkups. Friendly smiles, encouraging words and lollypops help ease the sting of vaccinations. Then for the rest of our lives they stand with us as we manage our health and the health of loved ones.

Letter to the Editor

Dig a grave for Constitution To the editor: My congratulations to our president, Donald “Mussolini” Trump. He is the only man who has had the fortitude to solve the infamous coronavirus, or COVID-19 scourge.

Demorest situation snowballs

The controversy of the last two weeks in Demorest started with the firing of a popular police chief in Robin Krockum. Some residents opposed that decision for various reasons, and there is confusion about the installation of the new chief. But right now, Demorest has a larger problem.

Letters to the Editor

Hunker down To the editor: I remember these words well as a young boy growing up in West Palm Beach, Florida in the early 1950s. When I was in first grade in a christian school, we got the word of our Sunday church service that the school was closing for two or three weeks due to some type of...

Primary drifts further from democracy

We wrote in this space a few months back about what a joke the current presidential primary system is, and it is only becoming more so now.

Commissioner Tench must do better

We need better governing than what we are getting from Commissioner Jimmy Tench. Commissioner Tench is a first-term member of Habersham County Commission that is clearly not living up to his full duties as one of five people elected to lead.