February 2, 2012 RSS feed / Opinions

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Next Saturday’s Tough Mudder Georgia will be an event you don’t want to miss

Tough Mudder Georgia is going to be an enormous event for Washington and Wilkes County, and even if you don’t want to challenge yourself in the freezing mud, I think it’s something you don’t want to miss. More...

Survival is still a challenge in small Georgia towns like Sylvania

By LORAN SMITH
columnist

SYLVANIA – The county seat of Screven has a familiar feature that dominates so many small towns today. Survival is sometimes an unending challenge for many of its inhabitants. More...

Letters To The Editor

Young people should read!
TO THE EDITOR:

Benjamin Franklin once said that “Life is a kind of chess.” I found a book in our local library about the game of chess, and I would like to share what it said about this game with everyone. More...

Tax deadline approaches

By Frank Watson
County Extension Coordinator

While farmers hate to pay taxes just like anyone else, I often see situations where they pay more than they should. This is usually due to poor tax planning. More...

Book Review

Mark Twain: Man in White
By MICHAEL SHELDON
Reviewed by PEGGY BARNETT

A t a gathering at the Library of Congress in December, 1906, Mark Twain caused a “perceptible stir” when he removed his overcoat, revealing that he was wearing a white suit. More...

Political Cartoon

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Frost’s poetic genius is unsurpassed

By DAN MAXEY

This column has for six weeks dealt with the works of American novelists widely considered to be among this nation’s greatest of the 20th -21st century: Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cormac Mc- Carthy. More...

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

OPTIONS

An investment option is the right ... but not the obligation ... to buy or sell a specified number of shares of a particular security at a predetermined price for a stated period of time. The right to buy is titled a CALL ... More...