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Bill Crane/Staff

Bill Crane/Staff

Crane: Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0

As we watch our local, state, and federal elected officials in office and in action, their public media appearances and more salacious comments tend to define their public persona overly.
Bill Crane/Staff

Bill Crane/Staff

Crane: Just say no to ‘Arc de Trump’

Finalizing this column on Veterans Day, I want to be clear that our nation is forever indebted to the millions of men and women who have served in uniform. This includes all those serving today, in every corner of the globe, protecting our nation, our freedoms, and our way of life as Americans.
Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: What’s in a word?

Simply put, there is nothing like a good whiff of petrichor to make a guy feel on top of the world. That depends, of course, on my computer’s teraflop since I’m WFH and not interested in ghost kitchens.
Loran Smith/File Photo

Loran Smith/File Photo

Smith: Fall scenes

With a fortnight remaining in November and the thermometer readings in decline, a sense of appreciation is building as the transition to indoor living takes place, but only when daylight segues into darkness.
Ronda Rich/Columnist

Ronda Rich/Columnist

Rich: Small room, big dreams

(Sitting in for Ronda is her primetime Emmy award-winning husband, John Tinker.)Whenever I’m at Ronda’s Mama’s house, I spend a little time in Ronda’s childhood bedroom, where she lived until after attending college, as a day student, while earning tuition money by working varied jobs.
Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: PSC race about pocketbooks, not politics

I am getting mail crediting me for the defeat of the two incumbent Republican members of the Georgia Public Service Commission this past week. I am also getting mail blaming me for the defeat of the two incumbent members of the Georgia Public Service Commission this past week.
Georgia Benjamin-Smith/File Photo

Georgia Benjamin-Smith/File Photo

Benjamin-Smith: Wandering down memory lane

I have been wandering, wandering for weeks. I hope I can remember to tell you about everything.First, I want to brag a little bit. No, I’m going to brag a lot.Eatonton and Putnam County are well known, and I am so proud of both.
Loran Smith/File Photo

Loran Smith/File Photo

Smith: Mister B

While I have never drafted or organized a bucket list, I have in mind completing a drive along U.S. Highway 1 from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida.I have traversed much of this historic highway already, but there remain several miles virginal to me. And, of course, a challenge.
Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: Random thoughts on random subjects

Color me bummed. I found out last week that, despite my sterling silver credentials, it seems my chances of being appointed Duke of York have been flushed down the loo.I got a note from a reader who says I made a “serious factual error” in my column.
Loran Smith/File Photo

Loran Smith/File Photo

Smith: Mountain living

Encores that bring about good times in good places make one appreciate life to the fullest and renew faith in mankind that we can find a way to coexist peacefully.When I am where nature and its splendorous attributes prevail, I am overcome with humility and thanksgiving. Glory, glory hallelujah!