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Next Tuesday, November 6, is one of the most important days in the recent history of Washington, Tignall, Rayle, and Wilkes County. It's Election Day and mayors and councilmen will be elected for all three municipalities. The question of Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax renewal will also be decided. All election days are significantin the history of this country. More ... Nearing the fall of the year, especially in South Georgia, We are bombarded with what is nicknamed lovebugs. What got me to thinking was having to wash those pesky things off my windshield and car. I thought, "To me they are more of a hate bug than a love bug, because I hate those bugs. More ... Everyone who has ever lost a loved one can understand the desire somehow to communicate with the "other side." In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as spiritualism and psychic claims became widespread, several intellectuals in Britain and America began to do research on the phenomena. They attempted to do experiments that would be respected by scientists. More ... The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education are both proposing tax increases for the coming year and the total tax increase could be over 11 percent for local taxpayers. Do you think such an increase is fair? More ... |
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