Many factors cause deaths

To the editor: Guns, guns, guns – that’s all the left-wing woke liberals think about. Well, Mr. C, I would upset your apple cart or gun cart today, but I feel sure your mindset is as rigid as a metal power pole. However, I have never heard of a gun killing anybody.

Sound and fury in Cornelia

To the editor: Years ago, South Main Street was a quiet road to Cornelia. That was then and this is now. It has turned out to be a road for trying out cars and seeing who has the loudest. When I asked how many tickets had been written since the new ordinance was passed, the answer was none.

We need good people to serve

A consistent running theme through the last few years of Habersham County Board of Commissioner meetings is how difficult it is to find people to serve on community boards.

Get rid of Bally’s, blackouts for good

If you are a fan of my column, God bless you, but additionally, you have probably already heard my rants about Major League Baseball blackouts. Well, it’s that time again.

Protect our children

April is National Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month. And for a dozen years, we have placed pinwheels on our front pages in April to add focus to efforts to protect our most vulnerable residents. Abuse takes many forms, including physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and neglect.

A proud, honorable young man shows us the way

Mornings should ramp up with prayer, coffee, bacon, eggs and biscuits before one starts their day. Just as a baseball game should ramp up with a team prayer, stretching, warming up and the players and coaches taking their hats off while the National Anthem is played.

Cheers and jeers

THUMBS UP to having our community fully back. It has taken more than three years after the original “two weeks to flatten the curve,” but 2023 is shaping up to be the first full year since 2019 where everything is totally back to normal.

I’m not sure if more collecting is in the cards

When I was a kid, baseball cards were everything. Getting a new pack was like Christmas all summer long. I remember getting $5 in allowance as a child when packs of Topps cards were 50 cents each with that awful rock-hard gum inside.

Loss of our values

To the editor: More than 25 years ago my then-pastor Georgia Deadwyler preached a sermon “What is Truth,” with God’s word The Bible as true, correct and not erroneous or inaccurate. I thought of that sermon as I read Pastor James Lyons’ article in The Northeast Georgian on Feb. 24, 2023.

No need for hate

To the editor: I’ve read no small number of letters to this paper that make me angry, but the letter from Curtis Stinespring of Hoschton may be a contender for the most hate-filled, godless piece of writing yet.