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I thought we lived above the gnat line

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Tuesday, July 30. 2013

By Walter Geiger

I noticed the first one while walking the pitch at the soccer complex in Zebulon where I spend a good portion of my life these days. It hovered under my nose and then tried to get into the space between my eyes and sunglasses. [Full Story »]

Courage always wins out over cowardice

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Wednesday, July 24. 2013

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I’ve been doing this job for 35 years now. I’ve had a wealth of experiences - good and bad. I’ve covered thousands of stories - uplifting and heartbreaking.

My friends - some younger than me - are retiring. Not me. This job gets into your blood. It is a calling as much as it is a career. [Full Story »]

A tribute to the master salesman with the kind heart

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Tuesday, July 16. 2013

By Walter Geiger

Our world and this community lost a slice of its soul and a chunk of its conscience Saturday when Sid Cheatham went to his reward at 95.

He retired from a career in sales with B.F. Goodrich and immediately went to work for the people of Barnesville-Lamar County. [Full Story »]

Try to stay dry, y'all

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Thursday, July 11. 2013

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The little black ants are back in my house.

Some folks call them sugar ants. There are various terms for them that include profanity. Older people call them ‘pissants’ which seems to sum them up pretty well. [Full Story »]

University towns are special places

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Friday, July 5. 2013

By Walter Geiger

I got to spend some time in God’s country last week.

The eldest had her rising senior tour of UGA. [Full Story »]

America: An exceptional nation

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Wednesday, June 26. 2013

By Dr. Benny Tate

I truly believe the hand of God has blessed the nation of America like no other nation. Within the first 200 years of our nation’s founding, men walked on the moon, created an educational system that was the envy of the world and established Capitalism where opportunity exists for everyone. The reason is simple – God’s hand has been on this great nation since its inception. [Full Story »]

Taylor: Powerful, played hard, hated to lose

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Sunday, June 23. 2013

By Allan Imes

Editor’s note: Allan Imes was supposed to speak at Merritt Taylor’s funeral but was suffering from kidney stones on the day of the services. This is what he planned to say.

I still remember the first time I saw Merritt Taylor. It was August 1954 and I was reporting for a two week football camp coach Otis Weaver had started. Gordon had dropped college level football. Col. C.T.B. “Bud” Harris was hired as president of Gordon Military College and he wanted a football team. Weaver was hired as head coach. Coach Weaver went on a recruiting rampage that drew boys from all over the South to Barnesville. [Full Story »]

NSA keeping you safe through your dishwasher

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Monday, June 17. 2013

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By Robert Heiney

It’s fun to watch the blustering, posturing and outright lying when a big news story exposing some government malfeasance shows up on prime time. Amidst the recent revelations that the National Security Agency has been spying on millions of terrorists, oops, I mean American citizens, we find the usual federal government thugs. [Full Story »]

Sometimes the pendulum swings too far

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Wednesday, June 5. 2013

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By Walter Geiger

Someone - I think it was a college professor - once explained to me that society’s collective view on things swings from side-to-side like a pendulum but never stays in equipoise for long.

Equipoise is the state of being equally balanced in favor of both sides of an issue or argument.

Certainly, the pendulum has swung too far to the left with regard to guns in schools. [Full Story »]

Boy Scouts to welcome gays to tent

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Wednesday, May 29. 2013

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By Robert Heiney

One of the tenets of a secular humanist society is to deny the natural order of the universe. Out goes all reason and sanity and it’s replaced with modern humanist parables designed to create a new world order that continually throws you off balance because it just plain doesn’t make sense. [Full Story »]

This, that and the other

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Tuesday, May 21. 2013

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By Walter Geiger

This, that and the other” was an expression my grandmother used and it describes this piece - a collection of observations and oddities from the past week or so - well.

First up, in the people are their own worst enemies department, is a strange tale from south Monroe County. Two brothers-in-law, ne’erdo- wells who lived with parents despite having survived three or four decades, went out clubbing while other family members were away. [Full Story »]

End social programs? Readers say absolutely

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Tuesday, May 14. 2013

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An overwhelming majority of respondents in our online poll on social programs are absolutely ready to put an end to them. [Full Story »]

Sen. Chambliss' address to GSC grads

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Monday, May 13. 2013

Sen Saxby Chambliss gave the commencement address at Gordon State College Friday. The following is the text of his remarks:

Thank you, Dr. Burns, for that generous introduction.

President Burns, trustees, alumni, graduates, family and friends: Thank you for allowing me to share this wonderful day in your lives and in the life of this institution. [Full Story »]

The rain 'round here falls everywhere

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Wednesday, May 8. 2013

By Walter Geiger

Colonel Pickering constantly schooled Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s lyric, ‘The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain’.

It is the hook that holds the musical and later movie adaptation together. [Full Story »]

Lots of smoke and mirrors in TV production

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Tuesday, April 30. 2013

I got to observe television production up close and personal last week and it was an eyeopening experience.

On Wednesday, a Discovery ID crew was in our office to interview me for an upcoming episode of “Deadly Affairs”. The crew consisted of a light man, sound man, producer and assistant producer. Both producers were females. [Full Story »]