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.

Share the history you’re creating

   The last two editions included two specials additions to our community.    Two families helped us welcome their newborns with birth announcements in the paper.    We’ve always loved receiving and sharing birth announcements, we just haven’t had many families submit their announcements lately.

Letters to the Editor

Democrats not “scum of the earth” To the editor:    As a lifelong resident of Georgia with strong ties to Habersham County, I was offended by Mr. Melvin Coley’s letter of December 2024. Petty name calling is that all you can come up with, sir? Democrats are “scum of the earth”? Yes, your man won.

Surviving the frozen weather

   One of my favorite local businesses from where I grew up, Delicious Orchards, posted on Sunday that they were closing early with this unique explanation: “so staff can get home safely, get snow gear on and crush some neighborhood kids in a snowball fight… reminding them often ‘this is nothing...

Searching for the best

   Who do you think has the best wings, has the best bank teller or gives the best financial advice?    It’s time again for you to vote for the best in Habersham County in the 2025 Readers’ Choice competition.