I was five years old, maybe even four; I remember that we still lived in the house on Washington Street.

Dear Editor:

The state chamber’s eggs and issues breakfast was a glorification of “free markets” and campaign speeches by Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and U.S. Sen. David Perdue.

Back in mid-November, I received an e-mail from an acting teacher in Atlanta. I’d taken a few classes with her five years ago and she wanted permission to use my image in a video for her current class.

Donald Trump has been exactly as advertised, I would venture.

A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to portray George Bailey in Rogue Spirit’s presentation of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

When I say “Dow” I’m referring to the entire stock market.

Dear Editor: Last night, I spent my allotted four minutes before the Jackson County Commission expressing my concern for the possible installation of 5G cell towers within my subdivision, Shepard's Crossing.

In an extraordinary editorial, Christianity Today magazine, a major religious publication founded by the late Billy Graham, called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office, saying his actions in the Ukraine scandal were "profoundly immoral." The full text of the editorial follows:

I have some thoughts rumbling around in my head I can’t make sense of:

A woman in Chattooga County (Northwest Georgia) did last week what I'm sure a lot of people would like to do to me — the wife of that county's lone commissioner poured a cup of Coke over the head of a local reporter, saying, "You deserved that."

My earliest images of Santa Claus came courtesy of a Big Golden Book. On the cover of the book, “The Night Before Christmas,” a cartoonish Santa waved from a rooftop. He held a large bag spilling over with toys. Two of his eight reindeer stood watching as he was about to step into a chimney …

I have heard all my life that fads come and go in life – and in education.

Despite a lot of legitimate concerns, the Jefferson City Council recently rushed to approve putting automated speed-trap cameras in local school zones.

Dear Editor: Many county residents may not be aware that the Jackson County planners are currently conducting a mandated series of open meetings to gather public input into the planning for the next decade.

Dear Editor: In 1993, we moved to Georgia and lived in a nearby city in Hall County. On many trips north to my former state, we passed through the City of Jefferson and were quite taken with its charm.

My broken toe doesn’t hurt so much anymore. It’s the fourth toe on the left foot, the one next to the piggy that cried “wee-wee-wee” all the way home. I guess you could say it was the piggy deprived of the roast beef, still discolored a bit, but much better.

The new “wokeness” or “cancel culture” running amok among us reminds me a great deal of the “Cultural Revolution” under Mao Zadong in communist China.

School calendars routinely include four weeks out-of-school between the beginning and end of the first semester. Only one full week off is routinely scheduled for the spring semester.

For more than a decade, two holes shaped like the lens of a floodlight remained in the Jefferson High School auditorium curtain. When I was teaching there in the mid-seventies, the holes were scarred reminders of one assembly the week before Christmas during my freshman year in 1966.

It seems to me it is rather difficult to consider something a “bribe” if the one being bribed doesn’t even know he is being “bought.”

The late Furman Bisher, best known as a sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, wrote a traditional column every November listing the many blessings for which he was thankful.

"There's more to a school than just the test."

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Dear Editor: Mike Buffington's recent editorial relating to the Jefferson Downtown Development Authority was, I thought, incomplete at best.

Simply because a man has written books and taught high school English for a decade does not mean he has mastered the English language. Every now and then, I find myself turning to Webster or Rodale or Roget to discover a word’s meaning, especially when someone has used that particular word i…

School testing brings a host of comments – all negative – and those are from educators.

Rep. Doug Collins may be on the wrong side of history in his defense of President Trump, but he is right about one thing: The U.S. needs a workable immigration system if it wants to have continued economic growth.

Back in 1982, I was approaching one of those birthdays that ends with a zero, feeling my age as a student at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky. One Sunday morning, I dragged out of bed and left the tiny duplex apartment to join other students for breakfast before we traveled to various locations f…

Massive wildfires are torching California as strong winds blow fiery embers far and wide, setting ablaze both dry scrub and houses, leaving a massive amount of devastation.