Dear Editor, I am responding to an editorial by Peggy Perkins in a recent issue of your newspaper. Her support for Joe Biden is apparently based upon what he says and not what he does.

Dear Samuel Knox Wansley, Welcome! You are my seventh great-grandchild and the fourth male in my growing family tree. However, I suspect that is of little importance to you at this point.

Dear Editor, Over the course of the past few weeks, several residents of Morgan County have publicly expressed their dismay over the dismissal of Cynthia Huger, executive director of the Madison Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC). Those commenting have referenced Ms.

Silently, Tink closed his laptop. He had been showing me a couple of videos. He observed me for a moment before asking, “You miss him, don’t you?” I nodded, my eyes pooling. “Very much.”

As of this writing, the opportunity has passed to express your opinion to Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division about its decision to issue draft permits for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to strip-mine the 582 acres of wetlands it owns adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp.

This story comes on good authority which assures us that this good story is true. One day, Tink and I were visiting his father, former television Executive Grant Tinker, when the conversation turned to Merv Adelson, a legend of iconic 1970s television shows.

Let’s face it. We’re a blessed people. Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships, 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s counting?), and the greatest state song in the history of the world – Georgia on my Mind, as sung by Ray Charles Robinson – but we are also home to the sweet Vidalia onion. Our cup runneth over.

AUGUSTA – Arriving here yesterday, there was that reconnecting with a place that is so magnificent that no one could imagine a one and done affiliation with this 365-acre sprawl of hallowed ground.

Count me in as one who still enjoys holding a good, local newspaper and absorbing almost every word. From the front page to the obituaries to the sports to the legals.

Sometimes, I have decided, rudeness works. Sometimes, it’s even called for. I had to do a lot of thinking on this because I advocate kindness and courtesy.