YARBROUGH: Happy birthday to a special ‘seminary of learning’

The year was 1785. Thirteen states composed the Confederation Congress. Thomas Jefferson was appointed U.S. Minister to France and John Adams, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Letters to the editor: Getting brighter every day

Dear Editor: I am writing this letter on a very special day, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. He had a powerful dream, a dream that involves each and every one of us. For a while, that dream was shattered into pieces, but now we are uniting and light is forming again into that beautiful dream.

ADAIR: Echoes of Georgia’s past on national stage

This offering represents a history lesson, not so much as a roadmap pointing to a particular destination in the future but as echoes that bear hearing.

Williams sworn in as District 25 state senator

Milledgeville resident Rick Williams was sworn in Jan. 9, to officially begin a two-year term in the Georgia state senate after winning the District 25 seat last November.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Well, we made it. 2022 is behind us and some of us are shaking our heads and wondering what hit us. Others are busy posting on social media the new year, new me BS! Let’s get real… My only resolutions have to do with catching more fish. This past year I got to live out some of my lifelong dreams.

YARBROUGH: Knock! Knock!

“Who’s there?” “It’s 2023. May I come in? It’s a bit cold out here. All I’m wearing is a sash and some Huggies!” “Please do. I’m glad to see you but aren’t you supposed to be getting ready for, well, uh, the new year?” “That’s what I wanted to talk to you about.

ADAIR: Dawgs, Great Chicken Chase Challenge, and a new year

The idea of coming out of winter into brighter days has its appeal. It is the celebrations surrounding a particular day that I never fully grabbed.

YARBROUGH: Junior E. Lee takes a look at Y2KXXIII

The New Year is upon us. 2023. It seems like only yesterday that we were up at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999, wringing our hands at what catastrophes might await us at the beginning of Y2K – the year 2000.

CRANE: One of our brightest stars

As we wave farewell or at least say “See ya’ next time,” to this pandemic, and soon 2022, I note that both took from me my mother, as well as several irreplaceable and close friends.

A tribute to the beloved woman who shared my name

Two years ago this week, I told you a final goodbye. In some respects, you were not the woman I knew and loved that left me.