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Dear Editor: In our area, when citizens show up for public meetings of local officials and speak, they are listened to. Suddenly the body that sits in the Elbert County Commission’s chairs has gone deaf and dumb as a row of fence posts. They have ignored rules of order for the conduct of their business. They schedule “hearings” back to ... [Full Story »] 

The joy of lighting up is real. I smoked a pack a day for six years in my early 20s. I didn’t plan to become a smoker, but when you cross the line from repulsion to pleasure, you’re there. And it doesn’t take long. I lit up for the first time at 18 around a girl I was interested in, who already smoked. She laughed at my initial ... [Full Story »] 

OK, I’m going to come clean about a facet of my personality that anyone who knows me well is already familiar with – I am obsessed with purses. I like to look at them, I like to smell them (especially the leather ones) and, unfortunately, I love to buy them, especially if they’re on sale. I have a closet full of purses of every size and ... [Full Story »] 

An Athens woman was arrested recently following a domestic dispute on Helican Springs Road. Teira Licole Robinson, 21, 317 Cole Ridge Court, was charged with criminal damage to property in the second degree and two counts of cruelty to children after she allegedly broke her boyfriend’s big screen TV, slashed his shirts with a knife and broke ... [Full Story »] 

When the first European settlers arrived in what was to become Madison County, they brought with them their plows, livestock, seed and knowledge of farming. From the beginning, Madison County was an agricultural society. Even the native Americans who preceded them raised squash, beans and corn in their gardens. The first production of our area ... [Full Story »]