Letter to the Editor: In the spirit of Christmas

Dear Editor: On Thursday, December 22, I had the opportunity to attend Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s 44th annual Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert held at the Cultural Center’s auditorium.

Letter to the Editor: GCCSF thanks donors, supporters, volunteers

Dear Editor: The Greene County Christmas Stocking Fund (GCCSF) recently completed another successful year. Throughout the season, GCCSF distributed food, clothing, and toys to 315 children and their families, and to 220 senior citizens.

CRANE: Peach Bowl grows from pits to major cash crop

New Year’s Eve 1981 was probably the coldest sporting event and evening of my life, spent in 50-yard-line seats in the very top row of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

YARBROUGH: Knock! Knock!

“Who’s there?” “It’s 2023. May I come in? It’s a bit cold out here. All I’m wearing is a sash and some Huggies!” “Please do. I’m glad to see you but aren’t you supposed to be getting ready for, well, uh, the new year?” “That’s what I wanted to talk to you about.

YARBROUGH: Junior E. Lee takes a look at Y2KXXIII

The New Year is upon us. 2023. It seems like only yesterday that we were up at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999, wringing our hands at what catastrophes might await us at the beginning of Y2K – the year 2000.

CRANE: Still rosey for Rosen

Few industries took more of a beating from this easing pandemic than tourism and travel. Even in Orlando, Florida, one of the tourism capitals in the world, the impacts were real and lasting, and even some of the titans of the industry felt the crowd losses.

SMITH: More on Darien

After a weekend here, I came away with new friends and an insight into the life and times of a seaside community that has experienced the vagaries of life—some good, some bad—but now appears headed for headier times. Darien will be a place to visit for a variety of reasons.

YARBROUGH: A tribute to the beloved woman who shared my name

Two years ago this week, I told you a final goodbye. In some respects, you were not the woman I knew and loved that left me.

CRANE: One of our brightest stars

As we wave farewell or at least say “See ya’ next time,” to this pandemic, and soon 2022, I note that both took from me my mother, as well as several irreplaceable and close friends.

SMITH: Get to know the town of Darien

This coastal town is pretty much like all the small communities that dot the nation’s eastern seaboard from Ft. Kent, Maine, to Key West, Fla. There is a unique sameness about each one, though there is usually something that makes every spot different, owing to a feature that sets them apart.