Importance of voting

Dear Editor, I want to ask every registered voter in Putnam County to Please Go Vote! After you vote for the candidate of your choice for the higher offices you will have the opportunity to make your choice for our local officials.

All it takes

Perhaps because I don’t have children, I never gave much thought to the importance of good mothers. I took the good mama I had for granted.

Proud of new businesses

Dear Editor: I am still wandering around being concerned, not nosy. Remember, I have graduated. My soapbox is portable now because I can pull it out My soapbox is portable now because I can pull it out and brag about Eatonton and Putnam County everywhere. Be careful and don’t trip over the wheels.

Response to Thompson’s letter

Dear Editor: The letter from Tom Thompson ( April 21, 2022 ) appears to be a politically motivated revision of history. First, as Mr. Thompson is aware, the County Budget is approved by the entire Board of Commissioners and not by the Chairman alone.

Roy Embry’s life of service

Dear Editor: Like many of you, for the past week I grieved the loss of one of our county’s prominent citizens and reflected on the many memories expressed by his family and friends. His passing continues to be difficult for so many to process, as it occurred as a result of such a tragic accident.

Refunding the police

Many political scientists and sociologists view the shifting sands of public opinion as cyclic. In more recent years, exacerbated by social media, as well as legacy media outlets landing often on only one side of a hotly contested topic...I view public opinion swings as much more like a pendulum.

Making a spectre of oneself: A spirited review of Karen White’s “The Shop on Royal Street”

Who in their right mind would purposely buy a house known to be inhabited by a ghost? Well, okay, so your writer did just that, recently purchasing Eatonton’s historic Panola Hall, even after being warned that it was already home to Sylvia the Ghost.

Silas Harris

It’s been 25 years or so since I first stayed at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Proclaimed as the South’s Grand Hotel, I have since stayed a couple of dozen times, at least.

David Perdue’s shot at GSP can’t be explained

Back in 1984 as Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale was preparing to lose bigtime to incumbent president Ronald Reagan, he said something he shouldn’t have said and then tried to clarify his remarks.

A tale of two cities

British author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) published his perhaps best known and most widely and well-received fictional novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," in 1859, 163 years ago.