Given to Hospitality
By GARY TOOLE
      We all get carried away when a big outfit like the Hilton Hotel chain starts using the word hospitality in its advertisement promotions. Some folks act like the Hilton company invented hospitality. Wrong! It's been in the Bible for thousands of years. In Romans 12:13, it says that we are to be giv...
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Book Review
The Lost Men By KELLY TYLER-LEWIS
Reviewed by PEGGY BARNETT
      Adventurers go out into the wild spaces for various reasons -- some for science, some for glory, some for the fun of it. The Polar explorers tended not to have much fun, but they gained glory. Sir Ernest Shackleton was already a hero to the British public when he announced his second expedition, ...
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      A Georgia Department of Transportation board member has proposed that an additional one percent, statewide sales tax be imposed to pay for transportation improvements in the state.
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Pipeline to take private property purely for increased profit potential
GUEST EDITORIAL
By DEBBIE BENNETT
      On March 30, 2007, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DIES) for a proposed northern segment of Elba Express Pipeline through eastern North Georgia.
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