Dear Editor,
We are writing this letter with the hope that an annual event that brings thousands of visitors each year to Appling County can be saved.
Since 2005, Golden Isles Parkway Association has sponsored the Annual Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale the second Saturday of the year with the goal of promoting tourism and economic development to the communities located along Highway 341. Golden Isles Parkway Association (GIPA) utilizes a vast advertising campaign to promote Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale. This campaign includes print, radio, digital, and direct mail advertisements aimed at tourists across the United States.
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Letters
Opposed to beauty contests
Dear Editor,
I realize by writing this letter, I am setting myself up to be called an old fogy who’s sticking her nose in where it does not belong. But that’s OK. [Full Story »]
I realize by writing this letter, I am setting myself up to be called an old fogy who’s sticking her nose in where it does not belong. But that’s OK. [Full Story »]
“Wild” Idea$
(Editor’s note: The author of the letter requested that the “$” symbol replacing the letter “s” in words not be corrected or replaced. The writer believes it is relevant to the subject matter of the letter.)
Dear Editor,
A$ a former full-time re$ident of thi$ beautiful flatwood$ country known a$ Appling County, it i$ difficult for me to fathom how a lifelong re$ident and citizen of $aid county could impo$e the horrific idea of a mega-landfill upon the citizen$ of Appling County. [Full Story »]
Dear Editor,
A$ a former full-time re$ident of thi$ beautiful flatwood$ country known a$ Appling County, it i$ difficult for me to fathom how a lifelong re$ident and citizen of $aid county could impo$e the horrific idea of a mega-landfill upon the citizen$ of Appling County. [Full Story »]
Let’s make a deal?
Dear Editor,
There has been a soft rumble running past the dinner tables, grocery isles and the talk at fishing holes. Have you heard that the county is considering letting a private company put in a landfill in the county? Soon the talk is throughout the county and it is clear that this not what the people want. Sure in the beginning the people in the area thought of what it would do to their little neck of the woods, but after all the facts started coming in it was much more. All the risks that would fall on the county and why? [Full Story »]
There has been a soft rumble running past the dinner tables, grocery isles and the talk at fishing holes. Have you heard that the county is considering letting a private company put in a landfill in the county? Soon the talk is throughout the county and it is clear that this not what the people want. Sure in the beginning the people in the area thought of what it would do to their little neck of the woods, but after all the facts started coming in it was much more. All the risks that would fall on the county and why? [Full Story »]
“I’d prefer growth”
Dear Jamie,
Thank you for running the guest editorial last week (Feb. 1, 2012) affirming that private sector employment has increased for 22 consecutive months under the Obama administration.
It is true that employment by the private sector, the primary strength of the American economy, fell sharply in the last 12 months of the Bush administration as the nation plunged into a Great Recession. The first month of the Obama administration matched the worst of the Bush years, but the nation began a slow but steady upward climb from that moment on. By the Spring of 2010, a year after President Obama took office private sector employment turned positive. [Full Story »]
Thank you for running the guest editorial last week (Feb. 1, 2012) affirming that private sector employment has increased for 22 consecutive months under the Obama administration.
It is true that employment by the private sector, the primary strength of the American economy, fell sharply in the last 12 months of the Bush administration as the nation plunged into a Great Recession. The first month of the Obama administration matched the worst of the Bush years, but the nation began a slow but steady upward climb from that moment on. By the Spring of 2010, a year after President Obama took office private sector employment turned positive. [Full Story »]
A terrible idea
Dear Editor,
When we first heard about the possibility of a landfill close to my home, we thought it was a bad idea. Now, we’ve learned a lot more about it and we can see it’s a terrible idea; and not just for us, but for the whole county.
Appling County isn’t looking for landfill capacity. Our trash is handled by Sullivan Environmental which uses landfills that will last until at least 2050. Instead, a private company wants to process trash from surrounding areas and this requires our county commissioners to amend a ban on additional landfills. The idea (as best I’ve been able to determine personally) is to set up a recycling center using trash mainly from Jacksonville and then create a landfill with what they can’t recycle. The landfill will remain a permanent eyesore for generations. [Full Story »]
When we first heard about the possibility of a landfill close to my home, we thought it was a bad idea. Now, we’ve learned a lot more about it and we can see it’s a terrible idea; and not just for us, but for the whole county.
Appling County isn’t looking for landfill capacity. Our trash is handled by Sullivan Environmental which uses landfills that will last until at least 2050. Instead, a private company wants to process trash from surrounding areas and this requires our county commissioners to amend a ban on additional landfills. The idea (as best I’ve been able to determine personally) is to set up a recycling center using trash mainly from Jacksonville and then create a landfill with what they can’t recycle. The landfill will remain a permanent eyesore for generations. [Full Story »]
Being a citizen
Dear Editor,
When you feel passionately about an issue, sometimes your vision becomes blurry. It happens before you even know it and at times instead of stating your opinion you are just screaming. My daddy used a quote that I think is true today; “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.” [Full Story »]
When you feel passionately about an issue, sometimes your vision becomes blurry. It happens before you even know it and at times instead of stating your opinion you are just screaming. My daddy used a quote that I think is true today; “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.” [Full Story »]
“Is this worth the few jobs it would create?”
Dear Editor,
In response to the proposed Landfill off of Highway 121 in Appling County - 4th District:
We are property owners near the site and we have been away from Appling County for forty years. We just built our new retirement home in September 2011. One day not long after, when showing our home to some friends, it was mentioned that a landfill or garbage dump was being put within 1? miles of our new home; we were really upset about this. It seems that property owners should have been notified of something like this in advance and it seems that no one, or at least property owners in the area, knew nothing about this until they saw it in the paper. Then a meeting was held and the commissioners voted without meeting with any property owners that I know of. I thought Government was for the people and by the people; it seems that I’m wrong! [Full Story »]
In response to the proposed Landfill off of Highway 121 in Appling County - 4th District:
We are property owners near the site and we have been away from Appling County for forty years. We just built our new retirement home in September 2011. One day not long after, when showing our home to some friends, it was mentioned that a landfill or garbage dump was being put within 1? miles of our new home; we were really upset about this. It seems that property owners should have been notified of something like this in advance and it seems that no one, or at least property owners in the area, knew nothing about this until they saw it in the paper. Then a meeting was held and the commissioners voted without meeting with any property owners that I know of. I thought Government was for the people and by the people; it seems that I’m wrong! [Full Story »]
“Please let your voice be heard!”
Dear Editor,
When this first came to my attention, I thought that it was a Solid Waste Recycling Center to be located here in the 4th district area and who would really care because it would produce about 20 jobs. We began to research and try and discover exactly what they were talking about. It concerns all of Appling County, because right now Landfills or DUMPS are blocked in Appling County. Moreover, the recycling center is only 60 percent of what we are talking about with the other 40 percent being materials to be placed in a dump on the site. [Full Story »]
When this first came to my attention, I thought that it was a Solid Waste Recycling Center to be located here in the 4th district area and who would really care because it would produce about 20 jobs. We began to research and try and discover exactly what they were talking about. It concerns all of Appling County, because right now Landfills or DUMPS are blocked in Appling County. Moreover, the recycling center is only 60 percent of what we are talking about with the other 40 percent being materials to be placed in a dump on the site. [Full Story »]
Thankful for honesty
Dear Editor and citizens of Baxley and Appling County,
I just want to give thanks to a wonderful person there. On Dec. 29 after shopping at Wal-Mart I took my purchases to my car and apparently left my purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Later when I discovered it missing and called the store you can’t imagine my surprise and happiness when I was told someone had turned it in. To this person I want to say thank you and God Bless you. He or she didn’t leave their name. [Full Story »]
I just want to give thanks to a wonderful person there. On Dec. 29 after shopping at Wal-Mart I took my purchases to my car and apparently left my purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Later when I discovered it missing and called the store you can’t imagine my surprise and happiness when I was told someone had turned it in. To this person I want to say thank you and God Bless you. He or she didn’t leave their name. [Full Story »]
Where do we go from here?
Dear Editor,
It’s a new year, what will we do now? Will our attitudes, feelings, thoughts or concerns for one another change? We talk about what’s happening in America. We need to look in the mirror at ourselves. We need to change. God didn’t plan it this way. It is our entire fault; why we can’t move ahead and leave the past behind us, forget race, creed, color and gender. [Full Story »]
It’s a new year, what will we do now? Will our attitudes, feelings, thoughts or concerns for one another change? We talk about what’s happening in America. We need to look in the mirror at ourselves. We need to change. God didn’t plan it this way. It is our entire fault; why we can’t move ahead and leave the past behind us, forget race, creed, color and gender. [Full Story »]
The election process
Dear Editor,
Someone once said, “Bad government is better than no government”. The Bible says, paraphrasing, … “and everyman did that which was right in his own eyes”, so I BELIEVE THE FIRST QUOTE IS PROBABLY RIGHT. Running for a seat in congress in the state of South Carolina in 1990, applications were sent to me from three separate PACS, with a letter advising me to fill out the enclosed applications and send them in, if they liked what I said, I would be forwarded $5,000.00 for a total of $15,000.00! [Full Story »]
Someone once said, “Bad government is better than no government”. The Bible says, paraphrasing, … “and everyman did that which was right in his own eyes”, so I BELIEVE THE FIRST QUOTE IS PROBABLY RIGHT. Running for a seat in congress in the state of South Carolina in 1990, applications were sent to me from three separate PACS, with a letter advising me to fill out the enclosed applications and send them in, if they liked what I said, I would be forwarded $5,000.00 for a total of $15,000.00! [Full Story »]
“Com’ on man”
Dear Editor,
In the afternoon of December 14, I went to pick my son (Austin Wilson) up after school was released. The ride home was quiet and I could obviously tell he had a bad day, so I ask how his day went. He told me he was upset because “tomorrow is fun day and I have to stay in a classroom and do work all day while all my friends get to have fun”. I asked why he had to miss fun day and he explained to me he missed more than four days of school. These days were completely excused absents due to a death in the family and doctors appointments, however this did not seem to matter. [Full Story »]
In the afternoon of December 14, I went to pick my son (Austin Wilson) up after school was released. The ride home was quiet and I could obviously tell he had a bad day, so I ask how his day went. He told me he was upset because “tomorrow is fun day and I have to stay in a classroom and do work all day while all my friends get to have fun”. I asked why he had to miss fun day and he explained to me he missed more than four days of school. These days were completely excused absents due to a death in the family and doctors appointments, however this did not seem to matter. [Full Story »]
The twelve days of Winter Wonderland
Dear Editor and Community,
On the First day of Winter Wonderland, Bobby Matthews delivers the flatbed. [Full Story »]
On the First day of Winter Wonderland, Bobby Matthews delivers the flatbed. [Full Story »]
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