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Opinion | Editorials

Editorial: Promises and problems: the council conundrum
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
The sins of the past and the promises of the present are forming like a storm cloud on the horizon of Oconee County.
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Commentary: It’s Independence Day 2008! Thank the Troops!
Published Friday, July 4, 2008
Let’s all go out and celebrate our liberty, and while we do let’s each take note that it’s the troops who gained it for us in the American Revolution and protect it for us today.
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Commentary: The Real Meaning of the Fourth of July
Published Friday, July 4, 2008
Contrary to popular myth, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not great Americans. Instead, they were great Englishmen. In fact, they were as much English citizens as Americans today are American citizens.
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Opinion | Letters To The Editor

Letter to the Editor: Cast your vote in November
Published Thursday, July 3, 2008
Editor, I have read the letters in the newspaper and heard from many teachers there is much unhappiness in the Pickens County Schools because of Superintendent Lee D’Andrea and all the changes she is making.
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Letter to the Editor: Our stay at Oconee Medical Center
Published Thursday, July 3, 2008
Editor, My wife has many medical problems.
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Letter to the Editor: Gignilliat Center was great reunion site
Published Thursday, July 3, 2008
Editor, As a member of the graduating class of Seneca High School for the year of 1953 that met in Seneca last weekend to celebrate the 55th occurrence of that occasion, I want to speak for the 46 folks that gathered at the Gignilliat Center to mark that occasion and compliment the City of Seneca for providing such a fine place for our meeting.
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Opinion | Tell Willie

Tell Willie: 7/5/08
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
Willie says: To my reader who sent me a copy of a letter that they sent to Garrison Keillor in response to a column published in the paper.
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Tell Willie: 7/4/08
Published Friday, July 4, 2008
Willie, Since the county employees only are receiving a 2 percent raise, why do they not go to a four-day workweek to help them and save the county money?
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Tell Willie: 7/3/08
Published Thursday, July 3, 2008
Willie says: To the reader who wrote to tell the tragic story of Angela — a woman taken advantage of by a man who married her just to become a citizen, abused her and got all her money when she died — it’s impossible for Willie to print such a long submission.
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Opinion | Columns

Bruce D. Woods: The “Greatest Generation”
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
In 1998, Tom Brokaw, ex- NBC news reporter, authored a book extolling those adults of the World War II era and dubbed them the “Greatest Generation.”
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Myrna McKee: When push comes to shove
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
“Remember, always be a lady.”
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Kudzu Corner: Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
It wasn’t hard to spot the Kezzire boys.
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