Opinion & Editorial

YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Joy is on the menu at senior center To the Editor: I want to share a big thank you with White County News and Pastor Keith Windmiller for the “Aging joyfully” message in the June 20th issue.

Love thy Neighbor: Don’t be a chimp

When I see footage from savage human activity, like the Oct. 7 attack on the Nova Music Festival in Israel, I wonder how people can be capable of such atrocities against each other. It feels inhuman.

Dink NeSmith: A letter to two first-time presidential voters

Dear Wyatt and Hayes: You are about to experience an American privilege, one that your great-grandfathers helped to protect. Both men served in the Army in the Philippines. Neither knew each other. And they certainly didn’t know that one’s son would marry the other’s daughter.

YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Respect for Ron Webb To the Editor: At the end of this week, Ron Webb will pass the torch to someone else as the president of the White County Rotary Club, one of three organizations that he has headed up for the past year.

A View from Yonah: It’s been 100 years since Floyd made history the hard way

Last week, my pet pig, Cunningham, trotted up with a damp flyer promoting Mammoth Cave National Park up in Kentucky. I must have left it under there by mistake after I took Judy on a surprise second honeymoon a few years back.

From the Desk of Phil Hudgins: Seen a UFO? Your fellow believers are meeting this weekend

If you’re talking to John Stamey, you’re probably talking long distance. Very long distance. Like outer space. Stamey is organizer of something he calls the World UFO Conference, being held Friday and Saturday, June 28th and 29th, in Clayton, Ga. “Why Clayton?” I ask him in a telephone interview.

Love Thy Neighbor: Why we must tend to our own gardens

Many years ago, my gym was offering Tai Chi classes. I went to one. The instructor had us form two lines and follow his motions. As we pivoted to the left, I became distracted by the person now standing in front of me. They didn’t look like they were doing it right.

YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A few clarifications I appreciated Mr. Whitehead’s letter of last week in which he addressed my concerns about best practices for letters to the editor and also included more about his stance on choice. It’s probably a credit to his letter that I now feel the need to offer a few clarifications.

Paul’s Perspective: Just the facts

I was an English major in college, but if I had the chance to do it over again, I think I’d major in Political Science with a minor in Sociology. Talk about a winning ticket! I’ve always been a fascinated observer of human nature.

From the Desk of Phil Hudgins: ‘Haven’t we seen this movie before?’

No doubt you’ve heard the old joke that memory is the first thing to go, and I don’t remember the second thing. There’s much truth in that saying. I know that because my wife and I have reached the age when memory comes and goes, and when it goes, it stays out late, like the town drunk.