A Positive Step
      The City of Waynesboro, Burke County and the Chamber of Commerce all took a very positive step last week when the three entities agreed to merge their internet websites. Each currently has a website, but much of the material is repetitive or overlapping and none is as effective as the new site wi...
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: March 25, 1998 Fifty-one-year-old Terri Conrad of Hephzibah died after a fall at Plant Vogtle. A pipe fitter, Conrad suffered several chest injuries when she fell more than 20 feet during refueling operations. Burke County and the City of Waynesboro agreed to equally share the cos...
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      We received a Letter to the Editor a few weeks ago requesting letters written to our soldiers serving in the Middle East.
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Steven Rice
SHE'S HAVING A BABY
      I'm having a baby. Actually that's not exactly accurate. Technically my wife is having a baby, but there are moments when I think I'm the one who's pregnant. We already have one child; a fabulous little girl and this one is going to be a little boy. At least that is what my father tells me.
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Bill Shipp
BACK TO THE BACKROOM
      Bring back the guys in the smoke-filled rooms. They knew how to pick candidates who could win the White House. . This current crazy-quilt primary system - which replaced the rule of cigar-smoking kingmakers - has given national Democrats two candidates, either of whom is guaranteed to split th...
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Don Lively
LIFE'S LITTLE REPLAYS
      Recently while going through some boxes that I had neglected since my last move, I came across my framed college degree that I had earned all those years ago, something that I have never displayed but of which I am very proud.
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Dixie Divas
SAY IT AIN'T SO, Y'ALL
      You knew it was going to happen. You had to know there would come a time when some reader somewhere felt compelled to give me a grammar lesson. I'm only surprised it took this long.
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Other Voices
THE NIGHT THEY SHOT OUT THE REDLIGHT IN SARDIS
By F. Leslie Jenkins Jr. Burke Banter Boy
      These are more things I have remembered. Before 1934, all the streets in Sardis were dirt. No pavement existed until the highway was paved through Sardis north to Alexander and on to Waynesboro and south to Hiltonia and Sylvania.
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Letters to the Editor
Freedom defined
      Editor: We can never define the power or true meaning of freedom. "For those men and women who have fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know." I read that once, and it couldn't be more true. It's not the average American's fault that he or she is "blind and deaf" to th...
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