2009-04-08

Over the Fence



Comments from our readers: • I would like to know who the other applicants were that applied for the job as principal at Blakeney Elementary School and if it’s just me or does anyone else feel like the new placement (names and other information redacted by editor) was already in the making? • When will DOT do something about what […]

BOE approves new alternative school plan



Beginning next school term, Burke County Alternative School will no longer serve high school students. The Burke County Board of Education approved a plan last week to contract with a private company instead for alternative education for high school students displaced from the general population for discipline and other problems. The measure to hire Ombudsman Educational Services for the 2009-2010 […]

Other Voices

OPINIONS

If someone asks, I gladly give them my opinion. Even when I’m not asked, I will give my opinion! Since this is a land of free speech, I am swift to express my opinion on almost every subject. In fact, I have an opinion on opinions. And it’s my opinion that it’s good to have opinions. Though I must confess […]

Letters to the Editor



Thanks, city Editor: Tell me why would they put a retirement home on that part of Shadrack? Seriously, Jones Avenue and Magnolia Acres is the area full of dealers and users. I wouldn’t put my mama there without a shotgun to protect herself with. Just wait and see. You will have more people being threatened and hassled by those folks […]

Dixie Divas

EASTER: THE DAWNING OF A NEW SEASON

One of the things that always excites me about Easter is that it kicks off the spring and summer season so Sundays, until Labor Day weekend, will be the stuff of which memories are made. Especially for kids. When I go back into the far reaches of my mind, it is summer Sundays that I recall most vividly. Those days […]

Don Lively

SOUTHERN COUNTRY EASTER

Easter in the country. Nowhere else compares. For one thing, there are more places to hide Easter eggs. Barns. Pine thickets. Under and on top of farm equipment. Even unidentified holes in the ground have been used to conceal the treats, though not by me. I try to avoid sticking my hand into places where snakes might be lurking. Have […]

Bill Shipp

A TALE WORTH REMEMBERING

Richard Whitt, 64, a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 17 years and a Pulitzer Prize-winner for the Louisville Courier-Journal, keeled over one day in January and died of a massive heart attack. The AJC didn’t even bother to run an obituary. The Courier-Journal said Whitt had been one of the best investigative reporters around. Ironically, Whitt died just as […]

Looking Back



10 years ago: April 7, 1999 All of Waynesboro’s hotels and inns were booked for Masters Week. The BCHS track team set three new school records while winning a meet in Morgan County. State Senator Don Cheeks refused to sign on to a bill introduced by Rep. Alberta Anderson which would have raised the pay of Burke County Board of […]

RFD



Mrs. Hazel Ammerman, affectionately known as Granny to many, died April 1 at Brentwood Terrace Health Center. She was 93. For many, many years she was a member of the breakfast group at The Lake Restaurant. If you are a regular, you have your own seat … you know kind of like at many churches. In her memory, the staff […]