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Last week, a group from the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) released a study claiming a 58.5 percent increase in cancer deaths in the 11 counties surrounding Plant Vogtle. BREDL hopes to use the study to block construction of two new reactors in Burke County. More ... I heard a voice from across the restaurant in a chuckling voice saying, "You'd better be with your husband!" There were only a few couples in the restaurant in Darien, so I looked across the room and saw that it was Nancy Cates, and her husband, Doug, and Jimmy and Gloria Miller coming toward my husband Eddie and I. More ... Congratulations to my friends Elizabeth Billips and Father Steve Rice on being awarded first place for feature writing and humor by the Georgia Press Association. In fact, The True Citizen won several awards again this year. More ... Much of the public discourse on the Genarlow Wilson childmolestation case centered on the harshness and unfairness of his 10-year prison sentence, with the clear implication that young Wilson, an African American, is a victim of bigotry and racism. More ... 10 years ago: June 25, 1997 Sixteen-year-old Nikki Carroll, daughter of Mike and Nancy Carroll, was named Miss Burke County and received a $750 scholarship. First National Bank served more than 300 hamburgers and hotdogs during lunchtime on Customer Appreciation Day. More ... Karen and I were meeting up on a secret beauty mission. En route to the appointment, I talked to two other friends on my cell phone. Karen, one of my best friends, is a Grammynominated Southern gospel music artist who has had several number one records. More ... Walking beneath a Fresh Seafood sign steadily blown against the cinderblocks by the salty, marsh wind, my husband and I entered the weathered, yellow building, reveling in our escape to the island. Inside, the hot, humid air settled again and again behind each pass of an oscillating fan. Pungent fish odor hung low. More ... Editor: I am the owner of BeeHive Hair and Gifts in Sardis. The building in which my business is located is the former Sardis Public Library. Each morning when I come to work, I have to pick up trash and beer bottles from the night before. This morning when I came to work, someone had kicked the banisters out of my front porch. I called the police and a report was made. More ... Editor: I would like to thank all of the wonderful people that helped make the "Appreciation Reception" for Dr. Lamar Murray a huge success. The True Citizen is at the top of that list. Your paper sparked the attention and appreciation of the community to the point of standing room only for a large part of the event. More ... Editor: It is more than interesting to learn in a recent Bill Shipp column in your weekly that one of the primary advisors to Gov. Sonny Perdue is a retired top executive in the Georgia Power Company hierarchy. Once political editor of one of those "Lying Atlanta Newspapers," as Eugene and Herman Talmadge would say, Mr. More ... |
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