Honoring a beloved wife and mother

It is the gift that will keep on giving. And it could not be more rewarding. This past month, my family and I established the Jane J. Yarbrough Endowed Nursing Scholarship in the WellStar School of Nursing at Kennesaw State University.

ConGRADuation Day

Graduation Days are among those most memorable milestones and touchstones of life. They are often seen more as an end to one phase, while I have always chosen to view the ceremony as well as the Pomp & Circumstance noting entrance into life's next phase.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Due to personal and family health reasons, I am announcing I will not be actively continuing my candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Putnam County Board of Commissioners.

Who needs to live forever to be immortal?

This is not a piece I was dying to write. It’s about death. The great equalizer. The reason I bring up the subject today is that I read a piece recently that scientists are looking seriously at ways to keep us alive forever. No more wakes. No more inflated obituaries.

National Police Week was May 11-17

Dear editor: Communities across the nation will come together during National Police Week, May 11-17, to honor and remember those law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as the family members, friends, and fellow officers they left behind.

Primarily speaking

It's the most common refrain I hear from voters..."I don't like my choices." Most typically these words are heard during Presidential election years, but increasingly, like these never-ending election seasons themselves, this message is becoming a near-constant.

Henry-Garrett responds to letter

Dear editor: Mr Lee’s deliberately inflammatory rhetoric does Eatonton no favors but makes its residents look like they are happy to live back in the 50’s. Are you all cringing fearfully in the face of “selfishly ambitious Blacks”? Is it only permissible for Whites to be “selfishly ambitious”?

Putnam Past

ONE YEAR AGO, MAY 20, 2021 The Eatonton City Council Monday night heard about the recently announced plans by the Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation to provide its customers with access to a new fiberoptic internet service.

Overview of upcoming primary elections

Bewildering. Almost overwhelming. But it is also important – this increasingly long and sometimes irritating business of deciding who can best govern us for the next few years.

Beautiful week in Eatonton

Dear editor: I am so excited. I remember not to be nosy but concerned instead. This has been a beautiful week and our beautiful little town has been so full of activities. My week began with visitors to the Uncle Remus Museum on Monday from Athens and Alabama.