Dear Editor, The race for Greene Board of Education (BOE) District 4 continues to be contentious, unusually so for a small Southern community where we all try to live in harmony. But Maggie Combs, who is challenging the incumbent Dr.

Dear Editor, If you have read anything I’ve written regarding the current Greene County Board of Education (BOE) election, you know that in every case I do everything possible to research the topic and provide a relevant and factbased opinion.

Dear Editor, Recently, a video of Pastor Loran Livingston went viral. In the video, the pastor delivers a sermon on bringing politics into the church.

I am doing something I rarely, if ever, have done: I am going to rerun a previous column verbatim. Hans Trupp, of St. Simons, died last week. I wrote the following about him two years ago and ask your forbearance in allowing me to present it to you again. Hans Trupp was and always will be an American hero—a true patriot. RIP, my friend.

Dear Editor, So much of today’s political news coverage reflects the campaign messaging by the administration of President Joe Biden versus that coming from the feloniously besieged presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Dear Editor, This letter is in partial response to the half-truths leveled by Mr. Geisler in his letter of April 26 (Lake Oconee News). It would take a much longer essay to address his criticisms of the Biden administration’s energy, climate, and inflation policies. But your readership should be set straight on the issue of our country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in May 2021.

In a doctor’s waiting room, I sat without a phone or a newspaper to read. I was just a-sittin’, observing those scattered about.

Dear Editor, Over the past 24 years, my wife Kathy and I have dedicated over 30,000 hours, raised millions of dollars, and donated considerable personal funds while working with and for Greene County’s school children.

The Lake Country Chorus performed their spring concert “On Broadway” at Festival Hall last Thursday and rocked the house. It was the debut of “Cat” Williamson as their musical director, and it was well received by a packed house of enthusiastic fans.

When the phone rings, you know it is Skeeter Skates. It doesn’t just ring, it jumps up and down.