Keep on growing, 60-pounder

What can make a grown man slap himself repeatedly in the face? Or what weights a mere 100 milligrams, is less than an inch long and can make an 1,800-pound bull jump a board fence? A red wasp. Alien like creatures they are and believe me, I try to keep my distance.

How about a Knuckles Sandwich?

You won’t be surprised to know that I get a lot of ribbing about my last name. Somebody told me I should work in a collection agency. Whenever there’s a problem getting someone to pay a debt, they could say “We’ll send Knuckles to see you.” Sounds like something a mobster would say, doesn’t it?

Be not deceived

To the editor: A lot of us are familiar with this Bible statement, but what does it mean and are we applying this to what we are hearing and seeing?

Village Reflections: Hotels, patent medicine and Deliverance

Clarkesville has a storied history of hospitality. From its earliest days as an established village, demand existed for lodging.

Two roads from which to choose

Dictionary.com defines destiny as, something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. Another definition given is the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible course of events.

Follow the green-brick road

We featured an astonishing graphic on the front of the July 22 edition depicting the paltry amount of roads Habersham County can afford to fix this year – just 10.43 miles out of 506.

Seattle is the same, but different

I recently took a trip to Seattle, marking the farthest from home I have ever traveled. My college roommate Fred, whom I went there to visit, has been to something like 40 countries. I have been to two, with the Bahamas being the other for my honeymoon.

Strive for pre-pandemic achievement

The results of Georgia’s annual standardized tests are in; let’s start with the good news: The share of eighth-graders performing at grade level for math actually rose by 1 percentage point compared to the last test given before the pandemic.

Can we be united again?

To the editor: Dr. Shelton Smith, editor of “The Sword of the Lord” newspaper, recently wrote on several “remembers (i.e.

Helping out Doug Dailey

To the editor: Many of you remember Doug Dailey. He was raised in Habersham and is now living in Jackson County. He has been in St. Mary’s Hospital for three weeks fighting a severe head infection called hydrocephalus and has had four surgeries during this time.