Conversations
Conversations with Mom are very difficult now. She cannot follow the thread of successive sentences. She has even more difficulty when trying to talk...
Renaissance Town
In small towns, news travels fast.
The calls started going out from Clarkesville Fire Chief Jerry Palmer at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, 2014....
The Big Snow
About four or five inches of snow has covered the ground today, Dec. 8, 2017, and more flakes are falling as I write. Now...
Vision
I am grateful for those friends and acquaintances who ask me how Mom is doing every time they see me. I appreciate the love...
Alto hosts a community Christmas
Cousins Liliana (left) and Anna Martinez pose for photos with Santa during Alto's community Christmas celebration on Nov. 30, 2017.
It was the kind...
Christmas in (and around) Habersham
The lights are up. The decorating's (almost) done. It's now time for some Christmas fun! This weekend officially kicks off the Christmas season in...
Fred Barrington, a true friend
In the book shelf behind my desk in what passes as a den is a thick notebook with a map of Pensacola Historical District...
“A Christmas Story” ushers in the season at HCT
A Christmas classic returns to the stage at the Habersham Community Theater this week.
Based on the 1983 movie of the same name, A Christmas...
Coco
Coco marks another impressive achievement from Disney/Pixar and they knock it out of the park with this wholly original, colorful, ambitious feature that will...
Cutest
My parents are the cutest. Dad snuggles in to Mom’s neck every morning and kisses her and rubs noses with her. Sometimes she fusses at him...
Local shelter seeks home for three-legged dog
"His body may be slightly broken but his spirit is not." That's how Diane McManus describes the three-legged German Shepherd that has stolen the...
NGTC Poinsettia Sale Dec. 4-7
If you're decking your halls for Christmas you'll want to add this to your calendar. North Georgia Technical College is holding a Poinsettia Sale...









