Prank calls have gone away

To the editor: I don’t know the last time I received a prank call. It’s sad really. Growing up in Northeast Georgia sometimes requires kids to manufacture some good times. When I grew up in Demorest, prank calls were a part of that fun.

You say tomato, and so do I

Today I’m talking about homegrown tomatoes. We do love them and avail ourselves to them whenever possible, which just happens to be pert-near every day from the day we get the first one.

Leadership prevails

What a difference 24 hours can make. Tuesday night’s meeting between Habersham County and Tallulah Falls was emotional and packed with hurt feelings. But it was not just over Roads & Bridges SPLOST or radios.

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.