Letter to the Editor: Commissioners’ compensation commensurate with performance?

Dear Editor,Without too much fanfare, the Board of Commissioners started the 2025 County Budget review cycle on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

Letter to the Editor: The hits just keep on coming

Dear Editor,As cynical as we have become in these times of political unrest, we are still shocked that the Supreme Court granted Donald Trump (if he’s president again) the power to kill people, take bribes, overthrow elections, and otherwise break the law, as long as it is in his “official capacity.

Rich: The folks who are proud of you

About a year ago, Tink and I were visiting our friends, Don and Debbie Reid in Staunton, Virginia.In their living with the over-stuffed chairs and sofa, the four of us had settled into a long, easy conversation. The kind you have with people who are your kind. Don’s phone beeped with a text.

Tocher: Time for last-minute change?

I wonder if, like me, you were left questioning after last Thursday night’s presidential debate in a country of nearly 340 million citizens whether these are the best candidates we can find? Is either even close?

Letter to the Editor: Taxing issues take election precedence

Dear Editor,The coming election offers voters a stark choice on taxation. The Republican plan is for more tax cuts for the wealthy and a sharp rise in taxes (tariffs) that fall mostly on the less well-off. The Democratic Party plan is for more fairness and tax efficiency.

Letter to the Editor: More than measuring involved with lake setbacks

To the Editor,My husband and I, residents of Putnam County for 21 years this August, have witnessed several changes in the regulations concerning lake setbacks. For a significant period, the setback for building a home was 100 feet from the lake.

Yarbrough: A return to form

Did you miss me? I hope so because if you didn’t, the editors would probably ask why we are running a guy nobody reads? Knowing what I now know, I am lucky to write this. I have been laid low with an insidious and potentially fatal disease known as sepsis. It is my second such experience.

Rich: Trusting your gut

It’s one of life’s hardest lessons to learn and then, just as hard to make it stick: Trusting an unseeable force – intuition.Daddy preached it.“Stick to your gut. It’ll never fail you.

Crane: Get schooled by a job

It did not feel like Christmas morning, or even a birthday, that late afternoon when I received my first job offer.It was 1974. I was 13, and before the end of the year, I was paying Social Security taxes.

Stone: Is this the end of Redbox?

Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.General George S. PattonGreensboro’s Publix unceremoniously removed its Redbox kiosk months ago. Did you even notice? I asked some employees there about it but got few details.