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Editorial: December Thumbs Up and Downs

News Staff
Monday, December 12, 2022
The Thanksgiving Day turkey is long gone, and December is in full swing. Blink and Christmas will be past, too. As we move toward 2023, we offer these thumbs up or down to express our opinions: THUMBS DOWN Mail delivery in Oglethorpe County has been through a major change the past few weeks.
An inflatable Santa in U.S. military camouflage is part of the Christmas display in Wayne Loggans’ yard on North Street in Crawford. Loggans and his wife Tammy decorate their yard every year. (LJ Jackson/The Oglethorpe Echo)

An inflatable Santa in U.S. military camouflage is part of the Christmas display in Wayne Loggans’ yard on North Street in Crawford. Loggans and his wife Tammy decorate their yard every year. (LJ Jackson/The Oglethorpe Echo)

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Editorial: Christmas celebrations underway in Oglethorpe

News Staff
Thursday, December 1, 2022
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas   Everywhere you go   Take a look at the five and ten, it’s glistening once again   With candy canes and silver lanes that glow”   The old-timey five-and-ten stores are gone, but look around Oglethorpe County.
Farmers have discovered that South Georgia’s mild climate is suitable for growing sweet, easy-to-peel Satsuma oranges. Our three trees have thrived next to a pine plantation. (Dink NeSmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Farmers have discovered that South Georgia’s mild climate is suitable for growing sweet, easy-to-peel Satsuma oranges. Our three trees have thrived next to a pine plantation. (Dink NeSmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)

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Opinion Column: Picking oranges plucks story from Great Depression

Dink NeSmith
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Circa 1935.   Soup kitchens.   Bread lines.   Unemployment almost 25%.   The Great Depression had America’s stomach gnawing on its backbone. Jobs were hard to come by, but the two youthful brothers always found work.
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Editorial: Our Thanksgiving week thumbs

News Staff
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
As we gather with family and friends during this week of Thanksgiving, we have some thoughts. Most opinions are positive, and some are not so uplifting. However, we treasure Oglethorpe County’s rural quality of life.
There was a brother, Bayard, and six boy cousins before 8-year-old Stella NeSmith, who can bark her Bulldog pride with the best of the eight grandchildren. (Eric NeSmith/For The Oglethorpe Echo)

There was a brother, Bayard, and six boy cousins before 8-year-old Stella NeSmith, who can bark her Bulldog pride with the best of the eight grandchildren. (Eric NeSmith/For The Oglethorpe Echo)

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Opinion Column: Celebrating a long life of gratefulness, thanksgiving

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
As family and friends gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, I share my gratitude for this sample of blessings:   For Big Dink and Margie, our parents from the Greatest Generation, who were daily lessons in love, compassion, giving, and the values of hard work and a good name.
John Harold Williams, a longtime fixture at The Echo, went by the nickname “The Rev.,” loved the Braves and was known for his ability to talk. (Submitted Photo)

John Harold Williams, a longtime fixture at The Echo, went by the nickname “The Rev.,” loved the Braves and was known for his ability to talk. (Submitted Photo)

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Editorial: John Harold Williams, a 62-year Echo fixture

Scott Maxwell
Thursday, November 17, 2022
More than a bright light was extinguished when John Harold Williams died last week. Envision instead the entire Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center going dark at once.
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Editorial: Stinky situation

News Staff
Thursday, November 17, 2022
If “misery loves company,” the residents of Oglethorpe County aren’t alone.  That was obvious, again, at a meeting of the Savannah-Upper Ogeechee Water Council meeting last Thursday in Elberton.
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Editorial: Postal change

News Staff
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Death and taxes used to be the only things that we counted on for 100% certainty.    Not anymore. Now we can add change to that short list. Look around. Change is everywhere.   This week, the U.S. Postal Service in Oglethorpe County is changing its traditional system of delivery.

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Editorial: Your donations will be tripled

News Staff
Monday, November 14, 2022
As a reader of The Oglethorpe Echo, you already know that we prioritize good community reporting over profit. Our reporters work tirelessly to produce public-service journalism that you can trust because you deserve to have a go-to source for the news that matters to Oglethorpe County.