Voting integrity matters beyond elections

With primary election results arriving this week — unfortunately after press time for The Eatonton Messenger — voters in Putnam County and across Georgia once more will be relying upon the integrity and accuracy of the election process.Most of that trust is naturally tied to politics.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,May’s Historic Preservation Month intersects with another important celebration coming our way in July, as the United States prepares for its250th anniversary (the semiquincentennial).

Freedom Riders morph into Freedom Readers

Dear Editor,Sixty-five years ago, almost exactly at this time of year, seven Black and six white activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders, left Washington, D.C. on a bus together, determined to sit together at lunch counters throughout the South.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,In reply to the Putnam Stone paid advertisement in the May 14 Eatonton Messenger titled “Smaller Quarry, Big Benefits,” my response is simple: “No Quarry, Bigger Benefits.

Big win/win on Winn Way

Raising a child with special needs and cognitive delays teaches you to better appreciate and find cause for celebration in many of life’s small daily victories.Riding a bike, taking a hike to the top of Stone Mountain, learning to swim ...

The thief

The email, from my literary agent, popped up. He’s the wonderful man who first believed in me without reading one line I had written.

Yarbrough: Keep talkin’ Southern, y’all

I’m a little late getting around to this, but there is a survey out by a group called Writing Tips Institute, a website that teaches people how to write correctly.According to the survey, 51% of Georgians would like our dialect protected by law.

Letter to the Editor: National Peace Officer Memorial Day

Dear Editor,Friday, May 15, is National Peace Officer Memorial Day.

Benjamin-Smith: Faith is a means of daily renewal

Once more, I am wandering and wondering. Each and every day is different, and what a blessing that is. Every day looks different, and each day brings forth new happenings and renewed ones.First, my head is still whirling and whirling and whirling. Why?

Yarbrough: Random thoughts on some random subjects

I would like to say I hate it when I’m right, but Jiminy Crickets, I am right so much that if I spent all that time hating myself, I wouldn’t have time to hate broccoli. And I really hate broccoli.