Football welcomed me back

   Something odd around here this weekend was something very familiar to me.    Where I grew up Friday night lights were rare. In fact, there’s only one school we played against that I remember having lights to allow Friday night games. (It appears there are lights and Friday night games now.

Time to find ways to help

   Thank you to all the public safety, law enforcement and other emergency personnel who helped us get through last week’s storm and its aftermath.    Many worked overnight – including those restoring power – to keep us as safe as possible.

Letters to the Editor

This county is dying, all around us To the editor:    I’ve had this on my mind for a while now. It’s the idea Habersham County is slowly dying. Perhaps, not economically, nor population wise, but culturally.    It feels like the soul of the county is no longer here anymore.

A newspaper worth its salt prints stories without favors

   Remember The Waltons on TV? It was a long-running yarn following the lives of a struggling, Depression-era, God-loving family in the mountains of Virginia. It might have been a bit too syrupy for some, but we thought it was a nice break from some of the crime shows of the 1970s.

The Big Apple Fest can have a big impact on our community

   Downtown Cornelia folks did it again! By all accounts it appears that The Big Red Apple Festival, Cornelia’s oldest festival, was a huge success.

Letters to the Editor

How do I decide on democracy or a dictator when I vote? To the editor:    Much easier than you think, for example, if you don’t like watching news as it’s depressing or have been convinced that most news is lies and refuse to fact check, and you always vote party over country.

Buddy lit the world with his 1,000-watt smile

   John Hancock’s swirling signature made him more famous than just being one of the signers of the United States Constitution. Centuries later, you’ll still hear people say, “I need your ‘John Hancock’ right here.” What they want is for you to sign your name on the proverbial dotted line.

Now is the time to solve the mysteries of the ballot initiative

   Truly undecided voters are few and far between these days.    But, believe it or not, that’s not the case for everything on the ballot.

The feeling of fall in the garden is like no other

Every leaf Speaks to Me, Fluttering From the autumn Tree -Emily Bronte      Can it really be fall? My, how the time flies faster and faster as the years go by. It seems like only yesterday I was impatiently waiting for the trout lilies to appear which are my sign that spring has arrived.

A year in the foothills

   The first time I ever set foot in Habersham County, it was St. Patrick’s Day 2021. I had traveled from Athens with a friend to get our COVID vaccines when the fairgrounds had a drive-thru clinic. We stopped at Dairy Queen afterward to celebrate. I never thought I would go back.