Rich: The Tam

In our kitchen, the large round table is often embarrassingly messy, covered with mail, packages, newspapers, and magazines. Try as I might, I cannot keep it cleaned off because the amount of daily mail we receive is astounding, sometimes six inches high.

Crane: When Moore means less

As if Georgia and the American South need more help in shaking loose the shackles and shadows of the American Civil War, Georgia State Senator Colton Moore (R-District 53) is suggesting that any actual trial or felony convictions for former president Donald J.

Letter to the Editor: Follow the money

Dear Editor, I found the article ( The Eatonton Messenger, Sept. 21) on short-term rentals (STRs) very informative. The article gave a lot of numbers and different ways of looking at the numbers. However, the article did not present a cost-benefit analysis.

Letter to the Editor: Presidential pride in Putnam and Plains

Dear Editor, The arts connect people in the community, and through the Trailblazers program at Putnam County Elementary School, they also help connect the academic disciplines of science, math, and reading.

Rich: The ugly shirts

When Tink came South, toting all his worldly possessions, included in the myriad boxes were some of the ugliest shirts I’d ever seen. Until Tink began to happily pull the beloved plaid shirts from storage, I don’t believe I had ever looked at a man’s shirt and thought, “Yuck.

Crane: Big kick coming for Georgia

In 1972, what was then the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), relocated its headquarters from New York City to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Yarbrough: On talking ‘Southern’

I just had to call Skeeter Skates with the news. As many of you know, Skeeter is the owner/ operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.

Rich: Bill Curry is still a class act

Tink and I attended a holiday dinner party, preceded by cocktails, in a fancy high-rise hotel in Atlanta. The event was to celebrate the newly released catalog of Mercer University Press, the publisher, which I have taken to calling the best publisher in America today.

Letters to the Editor: More on public vs. private school funding

Dear Editor, A recent Op-Ed by the (Putnam County) School Board Chairman (Steven Weiner, The Eatonton Messenger, Sept. 7, A5) depicted warnings and the pitfalls of Georgia adopting a school voucher system, giving parents the power to decide what education choices they deem best for their child.

Yarbrough: Reflections on a grandson gone too soon

My oldest grandson, Zachary Earl Wansley, died 15 years ago this past week while on a training run for a marathon. He was 21 years old. I am not sure what he would be doing today were he here, but I am positive whatever it might be, he would be a success. He always was.