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A reader in Calhoun sent my column on the Monks Walk for Peace that appeared in the Calhoun Times to a Facebook page devoted to that extraordinary event. As of last week, it had received over 3,000 …
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3/4/26
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This past Saturday was February 28th the last day of the month and the final day of quail hunting for this season. Once upon a time it was a very bittersweet day for me. I truly hated to see it come …
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by SCOTTY WOMACK
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3/4/26
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After ten years, the upkeep on our property had become impossible for us to maintain and we decided it was a good time to put it on the market. It was a beautiful old home, and we loved it but …
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2/25/26
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Let us revisit the matter of drilling for titanium dioxide in our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in order that the world as we know it never runs out of toothpaste whitener.
Although you have …
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2/25/26
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It was a spectacular day. The sky was bright and clear. The wind and the temperature were perfect. All the planning and engineering had been carefully completed, and everything was set for a …
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2/25/26
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Many moons ago, as a very young boy, I was introduced to a man that I had no earthly idea would be such a good friend to me throughout my life. Here we are over forty-six years later, and we still …
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by SCOTTY WOMACK
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2/25/26
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I woke up Saturday morning and immediately my thoughts turned to Valentine’s Day. I really thought about what this special day is all about. Obviously, it is about love, and it serves as a reminder …
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by SCOTTY WOMACK
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2/18/26
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It’s the middle of the work week. Do you know where your members of Congress are? Well, they ain’t in Washington, D.C., that’s for sure, and most of ‘em haven’t been there since last …
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2/18/26
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After ten years, the upkeep on our property had become impossible for us to maintain and we decided it was a good time to put it on the market. It was a beautiful old home, and we loved it but …
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2/18/26
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I’m trying to figure out why all the talk about Making America Great Again? America has been great since I’ve been here and I suspect it will be great when I’m gone. That is because it is made …
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2/18/26
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Some days are better than others. Some days you win. Some days you don’t. The best days are the “red letter days”, and the best of those are the days that bring along an entire community that …
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2/11/26
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Okay, it looks like I may live to fight another day. I just got a clean bill of health from my latest checkup at the request of my insurance company. All systems are go. Physically, all the numbers …
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2/11/26
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It was in the early 1940’s when my dad sharecropped in Bulloch County, Georgia (GA), and worked 80 miles away during the week at Seaboard Railroad in Savannah, GA, is when World War II (WWII) …
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by N LUREE BOWEN
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2/11/26
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“They were just using a lot of force to arrest me, and I was screaming, I was crying, I was so scared, I’ve never been arrested in my life.” (Nasra Ahmed, a U.S. Somali-American …
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2/11/26
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Twenty-one years ago, myself, along with three friends, were traveling east on I-20 late in the day as we were headed home from a hunting trip in Texas. We needed to stop and take care of our bird …
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BY SCOTTY WOMACK
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2/11/26
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We came as total strangers. Local folks had no idea of our background, education, or financial status. They went out of their way to welcome us to town. The ‘money pit’ was in the older …
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2/4/26
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What happens when you get a signer of the Declaration of Independence in a room with a signer of the United States Constitution? The University of Georgia, of course.
You may have been busy …
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2/4/26
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We don’t have too many kids under the age of 12 in my neighborhood. So, when the snow came last Saturday, there was the expected delight and frolicking outside, but mostly it was quiet and calm. I …
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2/4/26
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Almost a year ago I woke up in a hospital room in Lubbock, Texas. I had been in an induced coma for over two weeks after suffering a massive stroke. It took me a few days to get my mind right, but I …
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2/4/26
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January is supposed to be cold. It’s just expected, right? Of course it is, but does it also have to be the month of tax deadlines, demanding late Christmas bills, record setting flu and pneumonia …
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by Charles Schwabe
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1/28/26
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