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Americans fighting for ISIS are traitors

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Thursday, September 4. 2014

By Walter Geiger

If you want to see the political correctness spin machine at work, read the strangely sparse news stories about the two Americans who have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria. If you have been living in a cave, ISIS is the radical islamic force that has burst onto the terror scene with fervor and delights in crucifying Christian males and beheading Christian children. [Full Story »]

Battle of Potato Creek a great rivalry

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Thursday, August 28. 2014

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Just about everything that makes high school football great will be on display Friday night at Trojan Field in Barnesville when the Lamar County Trojans host the Pike County Pirates in the annual Battle of Potato Creek. [Full Story »]

Old school is best school for bad actors

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Wednesday, August 20. 2014

By Walter Geiger

It was Throwback Thursday August 14 in Lamar superior court and the members of the criminal underclass horde got a taste of what the courtroom experience used to be like and what it should be more like today.

Senior Judge E. Byron Smith was on the bench and old school courtroom decorum was on the menu. [Full Story »]

Football is nearly upon us

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Wednesday, August 13. 2014

By Walter Geiger

It may be true that, in Spring, a man’s fancy turns toward thoughts of love as the poet wrote but, in mid-August in the south, men and boys and lots of women and girls zero in on football.

And, like a beckoning oasis in the desert that is summer sports, football is upon us. [Full Story »]

Bad grammar, punctuation now the norm

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Thursday, August 7. 2014

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I have written before about my sixth grade teacher, Otha Woodcock. Her classroom loomed at the end of a long hall at Heard School. We all had to pass through it on our way to junior high and we dreaded it.

Mrs. Woodcock was there to filter out those who could not properly speak and write the English language. One comma fault in a paper and you got an F. She read no further. If you did not learn, you would repeat sixth grade. It was that simple. [Full Story »]

Walking on hallowed ground

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Friday, July 25. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Though I visited Fort Pulaski as a youngster growing up in Savannah and have passed the entrance to it countless times since on the way to Tybee Island, I had forgotten much of its history. So, on a recent beach trip and with three 14-year-old girls in tow, I went back.

It was amazing. [Full Story »]

Rock & Roll tribute to Kenny Green

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Tuesday, July 22. 2014

By Mike Ruffin

Editor’s note: This is the eulogy the Rev. Michael Ruffin, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fitzgerald, gave at Ken Green’s memorial service Sunday, July 13 at New Life Baptist Church, Barnesville.

I don’t remember exactly when I first got to know Kenny but I remember the circumstances.

It was during the great dispersion that took place in the 1960s when Carter’s shut down its mill village and half the town had to move.

Most of my family members who lived in the village took up residence on Greenwood Street, including my grandparents who moved into the house numbered 555, just two doors down from the house where Kenny’s family lived. Before too long Kenny and I and other neighborhood boys were playing baseball every chance we had in that big sloping yard between their house and the railroad track. We always hit downhill. [Full Story »]

An institution - and a wealth of institutional knowledge - lost

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Wednesday, July 9. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Big Kenny Green was plugged into sports like no one else I have ever known and he was really plugged into Lamar County sports where he played football back in the day. [Full Story »]

Tears - many of them - were shed

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Wednesday, July 2. 2014

By Walter Geiger

There are many milestones in this all-too-short life we are given here on Earth.

The vast majority are greatly anticipated and rejoiced over when they are finally accomplished: that driver’s license, graduations from high school and college, marriage, career success and the arrival of children and grandchildren. [Full Story »]

Shocker! I am in agreement with Barack Obama

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Thursday, June 19. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Time and perspective change a man and this one is no exception.

Once a huge baseball fan, I have not watched an entire World Series game since the last time the Atlanta Braves participated in one. [Full Story »]

Random, ratchet and the evolution of southern colloquialisms

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Thursday, June 12. 2014

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The other day, I was caught in a thunderstorm in my modest vegetable garden with my youngest daughter who is 14. It was not raining as we approached the garden and it was also dry on the other side of it - a blessing of the sort kids cannot understand. [Full Story »]

Our amazing May Melton

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Wednesday, June 4. 2014

By Walter Geiger

I first wrote about our amazing May Melton Geiger and the miracle of her birth to aging parents following a harrowing pregnancy 18 years ago this month on the occasion of my first Fathers Day. [Full Story »]

VA disaster gives chilling glimpse of government-run health care

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Tuesday, May 27. 2014

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It doesn’t care who you are or what you have or what you’ve done in life – you’re just a number.

Emotionless detachment is a hallmark of most governments and governmental entities but it has absolutely no place in our nation’s Veterans Administration hospitals. The men and women who selflessly risked life and limb defending our freedoms deserve more than numerical status.

Deplorably, some VA employees and administrators have shown these heroes nothing more than nonchalant indifference and gross incompetence at their greatest time of need. The results have been fatal. [Full Story »]

The firing squad may make a comeback

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Wednesday, May 21. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

On January 17, 1977, they sat Gary Gilmore in a chair in front of a pile of sandbags in an abandoned cannery behind the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah and pinned a target on his shirt marking his heart. [Full Story »]

A man who has made a difference

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Wednesday, May 14. 2014

By Walter Geiger

A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

This passage from the 5th chapter of Matthew is the one that comes to mind when one examines the role Dr. Bill Truby has played as superintendent of Lamar County schools. I was shocked when I realized that he has been in his position for only eight years. It seems like much longer due to all his many successes. [Full Story »]