Rich: Praying in the right place

It happened recently. Tink and I had just finished a video conference call. Chatting face to face by video screen was something that I thought George Jetson would take to his cartoon grave and yet it happens regularly across the globe.

Crane: The possibilities remain endless

By all estimations, Cleveland, Ohio, is on the rebound. However, like many of America’s great industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast, it was crippled by the industrial and jobs migration into the Southeast, from the 1970s to the present day. Former mayor, and later U.S.

Letters to the Editor: First Call thanks supporters

Dear Editor, To be used of God is an awesome and humbling thing. The sad reality is that not all heed His calling. The Good Book tells us that, “It is God who is at work in us to will and to act according to His good pleasure.” Phil.

Yarbrough: Biden or Trump; not much choice at all

A recent poll from the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s NORC research center found that 70 percent of Americans, including 44 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of independents, do not want Donald Trump to run for president in 2024.

Smith: Remembering when cotton was king

In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest.

Letters to the Editor: Fun-filled weekend in Eatonton

To the Editor, This was a down-home, fun-filled weekend in Eatonton-Putnam County.

Tocher: Atlanta doctor’s office shooting too close to home

Last Wednesday’s mass shooting at a medical facility in Atlanta took the life of one woman and sent four others to surgery for varying degrees of gunshot wounds, some life-threatening.

Crane: How technology helped solve the midtown shooting case

In the immediate and tragic aftermath of the Midtown Atlanta shooting of five unrelated women in a doctor’s office waiting room on May 3rd, officers from almost every city/county police agency in metro Atlanta, as well as the Georgia State Patrol, SWAT teams and multiple Sheriff’s offices,...

Yarbrough: Finding some good news in a bad news business

In a Sunday School class I have been attending, the subject of the media’s constant barrage of bad news was discussed.

Letters to the Editor: Uncle Remus Museum clarifications

Dear Editor, First, let me thank you on behalf of the members and board of directors of the Uncle Remus Museum of Eatonton, Georgia, Inc., for the wonderful article in the April 27 issue (The Eatonton Messenger), commemorating the museum’s 60th anniversary.