Yarbrough: Sweet talk about Vidalia onions

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?

Smith: Yes, it’s Masters week once again

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.

Rich: Fair and unbiased (or biased) sports reporting

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. I even read the entire jury list.High school football season had just begun, and I was reading the town’s sports page.

Rich: Rudeness and courtesy

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.But if someone is being abused publicly, I can see the need for rudeness to spare the victim.

Yarbrough: Bob Shaw, a man who made us better

My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world.He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business. One of his precepts was that we must leave this a better world than we found it. Otherwise, we have just taken up time and space and wasted a life.

Letter to the Editor: Balancing transparency and privacy

Dear Editor,In September 2016, a Gallup poll revealed nearly 50% of Americans neither trust nor hold confidence in the men and women involved in politics who either hold office or are running for office.

Letter to the Editor: GPD chief addresses error in arrest report

Dear Citizens,I, Chief Rodricus Monford Sr, as the Chief of Police, humbly apologize for the recent mistake made in the news article regarding Mr. Tyson Cherod Waller, 18, of Eatonton.

Letter to the Editor: Progress at Greene County Schools

Dear Editor,It is an election year. Three seats on the Greene County Board of Education (BOE) are being contested. Candidates representing LOA’s specific interests, and their followers would like you to believe Greene County Schools are broken, and that the BOE is ineffective.

Letter to the Editor: What happened to Southern hospitality?

Dear Editor,On the evening of March 20, an email from members of the Executive Committee of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC) was delivered as “A Message to Our Members.

Yarbrough: Becoming a Bulldog – forever

A lot is going on at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. Not all the news has been good.