Letter to the Editor: SPLOST No. 10 questions continue to add up

Dear Editor,The only things adding up on the SPLOST No. 10/Bond issue are the questions and lack of answers. To better understand the SPLOST No. 10 bond debate, I completed several open-record requests on the road bond earlier this year for $22 million plus interest and fees.

Letter to the Editor: Sources should be revealed

Dear Editor,In an article published on the front page of your Sept. 27th edition, the Lake Oconee News referenced allegations made “(i)n an anonymous letter sent to the mayor and council” by “city employees.

Letter to the Editor: In all His glory

Dear Editor,With just five weeks until Election Day, when our vote will determine the next leader of the free world, much of our cultural discourse, as represented in politics, has been reduced to opposing factions disputing conflicting viewpoints.

Letter to the Editor: Quite literally, a Stepback in time

Dear Editor,Over the years, my family and my friends have enjoyed opening Stepback for all to see and get an idea of how people in a rural setting lived in the late 1800s to early 1900s.For those who have never been to Stepback before, it is a recreated agricultural community from that period.

Letter to the Editor: Reporting on Klimm ‘a travesty'

Dear Editor,The front-page article in last week’s Lake Oconee News detailing “allegations” against the Madison city manager, John Klimm, is a travesty of journalistic ethics.

Yarbrough: Goodbye, Helene, and good riddance

Hello, Hurricane Helene. Goodbye, Hurricane Helene. Please pardon us for showing a lack of Southern hospitality, but you were not welcome to come in the first place, and we will be glad to see you go. Speaking of hospitality, you didn’t show much yourself.

Smith: Pumpkin season begins

October is pumpkin month. Pumpkin season lasts into November — all the way to Thanksgiving. Pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants, dating back to 7000 BCE.

Rich: The once incredible friend

There was once a friend I had who was incredible.Remarkable. Exciting.It's too splendid for any adjective in the English language.She is still my friend.But she no longer fits any description above.What she is now is what most of us are – ordinary.Normal. And, too often, downright ho-hum.But once?

Letter to the Editor: Harris shouldn’t raise taxes on corporations

Dear Editor,As I understand VP Harris’ advertising, if elected, she will raise taxes on corporations. The implied benefit is that this will help middle-class citizens. It sounds good if you say it fast. But if you understand economics, you know it's different. And she has good economic advisors.

Letter to the Editor: Don’t listen to election lies

Dear Editor,Coming up on the fourth anniversary of the 2020 election, we are amazed at the continued peddling of the Trump campaign election lies.