What is a patriot?

To the editor: As we come up to our national holiday, July 4, celebrating that Declaration of Independence in 1776, it may be time to ask ourselves, “What is a patriot?”    I was brought up to think of that break from English tyranny as a brave act of independence.

Streamline budget talks

Habersham County’s budget process is near the finish line, even as it is just getting out of the starting blocks.

More places to turn in crisis

• Last in a two-part series. Cindy Levi is the CEO of Avita Partners, which offers behavioral health services to 13 counties across northeast Georgia.

Please don’t get married in Georgia on a fall Saturday

My passion for sports dates back to my earliest memories. In fact, I would argue it preceded my ability to form coherent thoughts. Somewhere around age 2 or 3 I reckon. As I grew, so did my affinity for all things Georgia Bulldogs and Atlanta Braves. My affinity for weddings?

Biden not getting it done

To the editor: I agree with Andrew Clyde that Biden is a corrupt person, but he got it wrong. He is also senile and incompetent. The idiot doesn’t know what he is doing, he doesn’t know what the truth is. Some people other than Clyde got slapped in the face about the truth.

Cheers and jeers

THUMBS UP to the Habersham County Airport Commission for putting the wheels in motion toward a private/public partnership to build the T-hangars at the airport.

Local matters, now more than ever

Our community is under attack. Frankly, all communities are under attack. And it is up to each individual community to protect itself or become a memory of the past. Technology has done a lot of great things for our world with healthcare being at the top of the list.

There’s no accountability

To the editor: The definition of accountability is when an individual or department experiences consequences for their performance or actions. Accountability is essential for an organization and for a society.

Eight is not enough

We have seen many public meetings in recent months where large numbers of citizens are attending. Most of them have two topics on their minds – how their taxes are being spent, and stopping some sort of large development from coming here.

Focusing on the good times this Father’s Day

It’s Father’s Day week, and no doubt about it, I am going to have a rough time. It’s been a little more than a month since my Pops passed away, and the quiet has been deafening. Nobody called my cell phone more than Pops, and now, having unlimited minutes hardly seems like a necessity.