The fantastic flip tale

   Did you ever use a swing to give you height for some fantastic trick?    My favorite was to try to pump hard enough so the physics would allow me to flip the swing around like a looping roller coaster ride at Six Flags.

Time to move on

Finally. We hope.    With Clarkesville’s council accepting the county commission’s counter offer on the old courthouse property, it finally looks like the property will be in the right hands for action.    On Jan.

Letters to the Editor

Interest rates 50 years ago To the editor:    Fifty years ago interest rates were 18 percent.  HB581?  Really? Wilson Elder Mt. Airy   Teaching our children critical thinking To the editor:    In our homeschool, I encourage my boys to think critically and debate ideas.

Three of President Trump’s promises

   Somewhere among my shelves of books is a New York Times best-seller, circa 1987. I helped to make it popular by being one in the masses who purchased the 372 pages about a Big Apple real-estate phenom, Donald J. Trump.

Thumbs up to top students

• Thumbs up to local students Marina Dumas, Joshua Burris, Audrey Hotard and Abigail Hotard. These students excelled academically while being well-rounded in extracurriculars and sports.

Letters to the Editor

How Trump cuts taxes To the editor:    Trump just cost the taxpayers by firing the DOJ prosecutors that investigated him replacing them with less experienced prosecutors. Remember insurrectionists were found guilty, it wasn’t by the judges, it was the American people.

Defying gravity

   It arrived at our house shortly after he died.    The Saquon Barkley jersey.     For those of you who don’t recall from previous columns that filled this space, my husband was a fan of Philadelphia sports.    He visited Clearwater just about every St. Patrick’s Day weekend for Spring Training.

A good thing for the county

   A rare thing happened last week.    Leaders from every single city in the county, as well as county leaders, met in one room to discuss a topic. And, for the most part, they came to a consensus on that topic.

Letters to the Editor

Thank you for Sandy article To the editor:    First, I loved the article on Sandy, because Sandy was my first boss after graduating college in Savannah in April of 1969, at Oglethorpe  Mall, which is still thriving, and not the Savannah Mall, which opened much later, and is virtually closed,...

A UGA professor’s challenge might be why you’re reading this

   By the way he strutted, you could tell that the young professor was enjoying his command of our journalism class.