Alarming news!
      Even though every statewide organization representing local government has come out in opposition, our representatives in the state legislature are either supporting, leaning in favor of, or are "openminded" about House Speaker Glenn Richardson's so-called GREAT tax plan.
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By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Last Friday and Saturday was a whirlwind weekend kicking off the Christmas season. I was exhausted from attending only two of the functions - Christmas on Liberty and the Town and Country Woman's Club Tour of Homes, "A Christmas to Remember.
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IT'S NOT BLISS
Steven Rice
      You should have seen the look on the face of the nice young girl behind the counter at the bookstore.
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: Dec. 3, 1997 Beatrice Griffin of Sardis was the new owner of the first Habitat for Humanity home built in the county. Officer Gene Boseman was named the new investigator for the Waynesboro Police Department. Jim Griffin, 12-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Shelley Griffin, killed a 7...
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WANNA BET?
Bill Shipp
      Shortly before Zell Miller hired shrewd Democratic consultant James Carville to direct strategy for his 1990 governor's campaign, Miller convened a meeting of key Baptist leaders. At that get-together of clerics, then-Lt. Gov. Miller railed against any attempt to install a lottery in Georgia.
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Dixie Divas
THE ART OF SOUTHERN BISCUIT MAKING
      They are words that every decent Southern woman hopes to hear from her mother. My mama said 'em but I never thought I'd hear 'em. She bit into one of the crisp, buttered biscuits delivered to the kitchen island directly from my oven. I saw the look before I heard the words. It melted over her f...
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Letters to the Editor
      Burke needs a 'dog warden' Editor: A week ago Sunday I was over at Pops Kountry store on Farmers Bridge Road. I, and some other patrons, witnessed a vehicle stopping and dumping out a black dog. Then, it took off at a high rate of speed.
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COON HUNTING WITH THE YANKEE UNCLE
Don Lively
      Coon hunting was just as big a part of growing up in the rural South as was Mama's fried chicken for Sunday dinner. It was a rite of passage when the boys got to go with the men on their first hunt. Every coon hunt that I can remember was with Daddy and his friend Mister Chester.
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