Graduation Rates
      School officials are as unhappy with high school graduation rates as anyone else. After several years of dramatic improvement - from 41.6 percent in 2004 to 59.5 percent last year - the 2007 rate for Burke County High School dropped to 52.3 percent.
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      I had the pleasure of attending the open house for Robertson's Heritage Chapel Sunday. The facility is exquisite.
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HOMECOMING
Steven Rice
      This Sunday night I am returning to my roots. In a former life I was United Methodist. I like to tell Marshall that I was United Methodist before I became a Christian. I'm kidding, of course, and Marshall puts up with me or at least he pretends.
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: Aug. 13, 1997 A white German shepherd cared for by many passing motorists on Highway 25, south of Waynesboro, was found dead after it was run over by a vehicle. Waynesboro native Harry Coursey retired after a 26-year career with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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GEORGIA'S WAR ON KIDS
Bill Shipp
      Georgia badly needs a makeover. The question is, where do we start? Transportation is a hopeless mess that has grown beyond simply Band-Aid repairs. Air pollution is out of control. The only decision left regarding our filthy ambient atmosphere is whether to venture outdoors on any particular d...
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Dixie Divas
MAMA'S PROBATION
      In case you haven't noticed, Mama has been banished from this column for several weeks. Have you missed her? It all started when she, for the first time ever, took exception to a piece I wrote on her crankiness following heart surgery. If I thought she was cranky before the piece, it was nothin...
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Other Voices
WHY EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE CONCERNED
By Michael N. Searles
      I recently heard a survey rating President Bush's popularity among the American public. It was not surprising to discover that only about 30 percent of the population supported the President.
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Letters to the Editor
Applauds Burke courthouse staff
      Editor: On Aug. 2, I got to do something that I have not been able to do for a couple of years - I spent the day at the Burke County Court House, in State Court. I took notice that the staff there had come a long way since I last visited in 2003.
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