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Avi Young (from left), Kayla Lopez and Zeke Palermo read copies of The Oglethorpe Echo during class last January. An AI grant will be used to create specific tools to assist future Echo students. (Grady College)

Avi Young (from left), Kayla Lopez and Zeke Palermo read copies of The Oglethorpe Echo during class last January. An AI grant will be used to create specific tools to assist future Echo students. (Grady College)

Editorial: How AI will be used by The Echo

News Staff
Thursday, January 30, 2025
The evolution of artificial intelligence is exciting to many, but it also causes a fair amount of fear.  That makes sense: AI can now complete tasks previously possible only by humans — but in seconds rather than weeks.
When UGA’s yearbook, “Pandora,” asked to take my photo in 1970, I walked into the journalism school’s John E. Drewry Reading Room. Maybe it was prophetic, because I posed while reading a newspaper.  At the time, I had no idea that I would become a newspaper publisher. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

When UGA’s yearbook, “Pandora,” asked to take my photo in 1970, I walked into the journalism school’s John E. Drewry Reading Room. Maybe it was prophetic, because I posed while reading a newspaper.  At the time, I had no idea that I would become a newspaper publisher. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Opinion Column: A UGA professor’s challenge might be why you’re reading this

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
By the way he strutted, you could tell that the young professor was enjoying his command of our journalism class.

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Editorial: Four thumbs, all up

News Staff
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Four thumbs, all upOglethorpe County schools are back in session, and so is nearby UGA. That means summer is slipping away.
Corn and other crops have been struggling in Oglethorpe County throughout this hot, dry summer. (Dink Nesmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Corn and other crops have been struggling in Oglethorpe County throughout this hot, dry summer. (Dink Nesmith/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Editorial: we are grateful for rain, crews

News Staff
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Just how hot has it been? One Oglethorpe County farmer said, “It’s been as red-hot as the hinges on the door to Hades.”  Without irrigation, crops have been burning up in the fields. And how dry? A resident groaned, “If I had wanted to live in Arizona, I’d moved there.”

Editorial: Thumbs for the Week May 23

News Staff
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
In college basketball, the third month of each year is called March Madness.  In the fifth month, the tag could be May’s Mash Dash to get it all done before the end of the school year. Banquets, awards, field trips, celebrations and graduations pack the calendar this month.

Editorial: Thumbs for the Week

News Staff
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Thumbs up for public comment   If you attended last week’s Oglethorpe County commission meeting, you saw the crowd of residents challenging the proposed quarry on Lexington-Carlton Road.
Mowing season started this week for Oglethorpe County’s public works department. It takes the crew about 20 days to cover the 500 miles of roads in the county. And then, it’s time to start over. DINK NESMITH/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO

Mowing season started this week for Oglethorpe County’s public works department. It takes the crew about 20 days to cover the 500 miles of roads in the county. And then, it’s time to start over. DINK NESMITH/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO

Editorial: Thumbs up all around

News Staff
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Thumbs up for mowing and safety   We know it’s spring when we see the county’s fleet of orange tractors along the roads. With all the rain, the grass is jumping into high gear. So is the mowing crew.
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Editorial: What’s with the mail?

News Staff
Thursday, April 11, 2024
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”     While those words are often quoted as the U.S. Postal Service’s motto, the mail service has no official slogan.

Editorial: Your voice matters

News Staff
Monday, April 8, 2024
An initial glance at Monday night’s county commission agenda signaled a breezy meeting. But unlisted items turned the session into a stormy exchange between commissioners and a few residents. Under “other business” and “public comment,” four topics stirred emotions and sometimes angry reactions.