Letter to the Editor: Too much to take?

Dear Editor,Without much fanfare so far this year, on Friday, August 29, the Putnam County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to approve the county’s 2026 General Fund budget.

Letter to the Editor: Doesn’t like teacher unions

Dear Editor,The stories about the 600 CDC employees who were fired and the $50 million the two top teacher unions gave to the left-wing programs need to be examined to see if the BOE needs to take action.First, the 600 jobs which were to prevent rape, child abuse, and teen dating violence would not...

Yarbrough: Thoughts on heading off to college

I remember it as if it were yesterday. In fact, it has been a lot of yesterdays — and I mean a lot — since I first walked on the campus of the University of Georgia. My parents dropped me off at my dorm, then headed back to East Point, some 70 miles away.

Stone: Wayfaring stranger

An excellent day can disintegrate into an existential crisis with the introduction of an unpleasant idea.Just the other day, I was enjoying a really good wedge of pineapple cheesecake when my phone chirped to tell me I had an email.I was hoping for a reply to an email I had been obsessing over, but...

Smith: Lexington, Kentucky

Flying into Bluegrass Field has always been emotionally intoxicating — even before you tour a distillery upon disembarking.

Rich: Roosevelt and the ‘govenmint’ cheese

Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of president.He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled but not in the way that turned him mean.

Yarbrough: Mr. President, you have the wrong number

Uh Oh. If I were the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I might want to get out of town as soon as possible, or preferably out of the country. Maybe even hitch a ride on one of Elon Musk’s rockets and cool it in outer space for a while.

Stone: I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam

I’m Popeye the sailor man, I’m Popeye the sailor man I’m strong to the finish 'cause I eats my spinach I’m Popeye the Sailor Man Popeye themeIn the morning, if I had Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, and Dancing Bear, I was a happy child.After school, I tuned into Officer Don and “The Popeye...

Rich: The marble girl

It’s no secret – in fact, it’s becoming “fabled” pretty quickly – that Tink and I come from worlds as far apart as Mars and Jupiter.He is descended from Mayflower Pilgrims who, for generations, were well-respected New Englanders who then, in modern times, took a ride across the country to find...

Letter to the Editor: We deserve leaders who fight for all of us

Dear Editor,Too often, local elections slip by quietly, with little attention paid to who will be sitting in the city council chambers or the county commission seats.