Opinion & Editorial

Our View: Give the 'Best' their due

It's that time of year again! School is out for the summer, people are braving high gas prices to travel or are settling for staycations.

Letter to the Editor: Balancing public safety and personal privacy

If you've driven by Hulsey Road between Helen and Cleveland any time recently, your face, your car, and your license plate have been recorded and scrutinized by an artificial intelligence to be passed on to local law enforcement.

Letter to the Editor: Labels are less important than actions

In a recent letter to the editor, Mr. Jonathan Berry warns us to beware of labels, suggesting that epithets such as fascist, hard right, right wing extremist, and others used by some to describe the Republican Party are inaccurate and used as propaganda to “assign guilt by association and silence …...

That cold, frosty morning

By Ronda Rich        The year or the month have now slipped through my memory. It wasn’t many years ago; that I do remember.        It was the time of winter when dawn creeps in with dull, gray light.

Elliott Brack’s purple pen inspired journalists to excel 

By Dink NeSmithAn old feed and seed store is why you are reading this.How’s that?Go back with me to 1962. What was once Strickland Feed & Seed was then the office of the Wayne County Press, an upstart weekly, a stone’s throw from the railroad tracks that split my hometown.

Spring brings new beginnings

I've always enjoyed the late spring. The flowers in my garden – which my green-thumbed son planted for me – are blooming in glorious colors.

Honor service members' sacrifice on Memorial Day

By Ron WebbNext Monday is Memorial Day, and it's much more significant than a 3-day weekend, a picnic, or a family barbecue. It is a day we remember the words of the Bible verse John 15:13: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

On gelatin and car wax

By Michele QuintalI was in first grade when we moved to Hawai’i. That Memorial Day, we were invited to have dinner with new relatives. As we entered Auntie Kakazu’s house, I saw platters of food. One platter had rolls of white grains with vegetables, held together by some sort of green wet wrapper.

World War II Heroes

By Ronda Rich         Tink and I were at lunch recently with a friend who started talking about his grandfather’s bravery and medals won during World War II.        When the war began, he was initially deferred because of college. But several months later, he was drafted.

The  Family’s Farm

By Ronda Rich              Patti has been a loyal friend of mine for 30 years. I can always count on her and I hope she feels the same about me.               We both grew up in farm families about four miles from each other. Patti has lived the American dream.