We need electricity to live. You wouldn’t be reading this right now if we didn’t have it. I couldn’t transmit this in print or on a screen without it.

Much like last year, 2019 featured a wet summer that saved its greatest heat for late summer and early fall.

Dear Editor: It is past time that we who are Christians awake and come together by faith to take positive, deliberate action so that we, our families, the church and our nation may be delivered from the strife that has enveloped our land. The deliverance we need can only come from God and wi…

Dear Editor: The Madison Area Resource Team (MART)/ Family Connection would like to thank all those who contributed or assisted in any way to help make this year’s Back to School Supply Drive and Rally a big success, including: Action, Inc., Amerigroup, Anchor Bible Church, Julie Buffalo, Ca…

I had a couple of good friends, Shirley and Virginia, and I spent a lot of time with those gals in days gone by.

“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship.”

Any time I start to write about an issue these days, I hit a familiar emotional brick wall. I recognize that no matter how fired up I am on a particular topic, and no matter my effort to make a few sound points, I am going to reach the finish line feeling some version of “what’s the point?”

It’s been a long time since I was a high school student. While I realize in the grand scheme of things 30 years is not the longest amount of time in the world, it has been more than three decades now since I was roaming the halls of my high school as a student.

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I have lost and grieved for many pets over the years; it’s part of the price you pay when you have animals that share your life and your home. They become family.

I was famished and in no mood for a fight. But I felt like I might get sucked into a conflict at a Subway in Atlanta recently.

The news that Georgia US Senator Jonny Isakson will soon retire was not shocking.

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Even though we had our share of hot weather at times, the summer of 2019 will go down as a wet, but fairly pleasant, summer, as far as Georgia summers go.

Maybe gardening is your hobby, or woodworking, or tinkering with a car, or making clothes or jewelry, or cooking. Anything that keeps your mind engaged is worthwhile, isn’t it? We all like different things.

If I were hooked up to an imaging machine, then different parts of my brain would surely light up when driving in the country versus the city. I’ve been driving in Atlanta a lot recently and thinking about the vast mental disparity between a trip on I-285 and a drive on any Madison County ba…

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Dear Editor: I write in support of Margie Richards and her clear-eyed assessment of the poor quality of GOP leadership as represented by Donald Trump.

Dear Editor: The Madison County Library would like to thank the community for another great summer reading program. Over 500 individuals read a total of over 16,000 books this summer.

Dear Editor: Included in Margie Richards’ column on the opinion page of the Aug. 15 issue of the Madison County Journal, there was an obvious reference to an opinion piece that I submitted to the Aug. 8 issue. I would like to address this and make a correction.

Items from my political notebook as the heat of summer continues to pound us into submission:

This is the age of conspiracy theories, which is not a good thing.

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We might as well pass a law to leave the American flag at half-mast all the time.

“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.” (1 John 4:20-21)

I was 40-years-old before I performed in something other than a church play, landing the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s production of Harvey.

Georgia’s education Milestones test results were recently released for our local schools. Elsewhere in this edition, we’ve published a story about those results, which are compilation of end-of-course and end-of-year tests.

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If you like heat and humidity then this past July was for you. If you like night-time thunderstorms with blinding rain and vivid lightning then this past July was also for you.

When I hear a speech and someone quotes a famous person, it typically doesn’t move me at all. I am usually moved by personal anecdote told with conviction, not some words of wisdom from long ago.

You already know you can check out books and movies at your local library, and by now you probably also know about some other cool things you can check out: passes for Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Michael C. Carlos Museum , the Go Fish Georgia Edu…

This following is an open letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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That was an issue raised in two recent letters to the editor, both of which were critical of how much crime we report in the newspaper. Fair enough question. Here’s some thoughts about that.