Paying tribute to Betty Foy Sanders and a life well-lived

She was Georgia’s Grand Dame. Our state’s First Lady. A prolific artist. A philanthropist and my muse. She was Betty Foy Sanders, who died on May 29th at the age of 95 after a life well-lived. I first came to her attention for my unabashed admiration for her husband, former Gov. Carl Sanders.

Putnam Past

ONE YEAR AGO, JUNE 10, 2021 Sitting at the dais for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut the world down last spring, the Eatonton City Council decided to lift restrictions on the public use of the City Waterworks building. The action came at its June 1 meeting.

Webster responds on property taxes

Dear editor: This letter is in response to a Letter to the Editor in the May 26 th edition by a Ms. Roxanne Wilson entitled “Property Tax”. In her letter, she states, “I love Putnam County. I would love it even more if everyone receiving County services was helping pay for them”. Well, Ms.

Some thoughts on a day that will live in infamy

What a day it was. Tuesday, May 24. A day that will live in infamy.

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.