Letter to the Editor: SPLOST 10 concerns, resurrected

Dear Editor, As reported in the Lake Oconee News last week, SPLOST No. 10 has been resurrected.A huge concern and one reason SPLOST failed at the ballot last time (besides being tied to a bond) was the lack of detailed estimates.

Letter to the Editor: Not older, just better

Dear Editor,At the age of 75, I find myself reflecting more on past life experiences and endeavors than I did when I was younger. In speaking with friends of a similar age, I’m aware that, more often than not, they don’t speak of retirement as having left a job and permanently ceasing to work.

Yarbrough: If we’re not happy, can we just annex Finland?

Perhaps you are not familiar with the World Happiness Report that ranks countries on how happy their citizens are?The release of the 13th edition of the annual report this year coincided with March 20 — United Nations International Day of Happiness — which probably made a lot of people unhappy...

Stone: ‘I’m going home by helicopter’

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise ... this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive ... [it] comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier,...

Rich: The old hat

In my hands, I held the battered straw hat, holes torn in a couple of places. For a solid block of time, I studied it, having taken it down from the fireplace mantle.I choked up. It probably cost no more than a quarter, yet Oscar Cannon, no doubt, wore it for half a century or more.

Letter to the Editor: What is going on with Greensboro PD?

Dear Editor,I have sat on this for a few months and couldn’t decide whether to risk it and stand up for what’s right or let it be.I have become somewhat familiar with Greene County/Greensboro and not in a positive way.

Letter to the Editor: Federal employees are real people

Dear Editor,With all the news regarding DOGE efforts and termination of federal employees, I would just like to remind readers that federal employees are real people. I am one of them.

Letter to the Editor: Trump’s golf trips

Dear Editor,As of March 17, just 56 days into his presidency, Donald Trump has already spent nearly 30% of his time golfing despite promising he would be “too busy working” to play. His trips to his own properties, particularly Mar-a-Lago, aren’t just frequent; they’re costly.

Stone: Cataclysms, calamities, and catastrophes

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. - Hunter S. ThompsonI have always regarded writing columns about writing columns as a bad idea.Readers don’t want to hear about that sort of thing.I mean, what if your plumber showed up at your...

Smith: St. Simons Island

Whenever I have an opportunity to visit Georgia’s Golden Isles, I become overwhelmed with the serenity and natural beauty that encompasses this stretch of the Atlantic Seaboard.The Golden Isles are a treasure for all Georgians, and there is more to sample than the beaches, restaurants, and...