Letter to the Editor: ‘Quarry Math’ doesn’t add up

Dear Editor,Regarding the recent advertisement from Putnam County Stone, I feel compelled to address the “Quarry Math” presented to our residents. While the developer attempts to frame their project as an economic necessity, a closer look reveals that their “$2.

Letter to the Editor: Local politics deserve attention, too

Dear Editor,I recently came across a statement that stuck with me: people are eager to debate national politics, yet rarely attend a city council meeting in their own community.It’s a simple observation — but a powerful truth. Local politics is where government becomes real.

Letter to the Editor: Now the wheat is separated from the chaff

Dear Editor,Enter the media-enhanced spat between the Pontiff and the President…Here is where true Catholics are separated from the faux — those who believe the Pope is the Vicar of Christ on Earth, and those who instead worship a cult leader who lies and grifts and find it acceptable that he does...

Stone: I ain’t missing you at all

Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.— Calla QuinnDid you miss me the last couple of weeks?Were you concerned? Did you post about me on Nextdoor?Something like: “Does anyone know why T. Michael Stone didn’t write a column the past two weeks?

Rich: Spring cometh forth

Spring has arrived, and it is a beautiful sight indeed.It has been several years since we’ve truly had a spring.Too often, cold winters have given way abruptly to hot, humid days. But this year feels different.

Smith: Facts about cotton

Having grown up on a farm where our principal cash crop was cotton, I am always interested in what is going on in our state regarding the agriculture sector.

In appreciation of an onion

]As you read these words, Vidalia onions are being shipped across the nation, from sea to shining sea. If you aren’t from around these parts, let me tell you what we natives already know.There is nothing like a Vidalia onion.

Good time, great cause

Hopefully, most of you reading this had a blessed or restful Good Friday and Easter celebration, a traditional Seder Supper as part of a weeklong Passover commemoration, or even a recent Eid al-Fitr feast marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Tocher: The contrasts are unavoidable

I keep thinking about how far away they are.Literally as I write this, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission will travel farther from Earth than any human beings have ever been before, peaking at 252,756 miles away as the crow flies.

Yarbrough: Proposal may be cheap but not commitment

The American novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote, “You can’t Go Home Again.” He was right. You can’t.I tried with my friend, Philip.A near-fatal bout of sepsis has made driving a challenge for me and a firm no-no, according to my kids.