How is it possible to watch four different football games in one day? Believe me, it can be done with careful preparation and timing.

We were in Nashville for Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends. Our son-in-law is a University of Wisconsin alum, and Wisconsin was scheduled to play Minnesota for a spot in the Big 10 finals, or whatever they call that.

So we knew going in we’d be watching that game, and we knew who to pull for.

Also, Clemson played South Carolina. Our daughter is a dyed-in-the-wool, bread-and-buttered Clemson fan, and of course we all knew

A shout out for Norris restaurant

Dear Editor,

Let’s give a shout out to Margaret’s Restaurant in Norris.

They made Thanksgiving dinner plates and delivered them to the shut-in people in the Norris community. Now, how cool is that?

Rebecca Wofford

Norris

Do you want more taxes?

Dear Editor,

If you don’t want higher taxes in Pickens County, you better speak up!

A group known as “Concerned Citizens of Pickens County” (CCPC) is trying to pull a fast one on

Tom O’Hanlan

Manufacturers Caring for Pickens County

The Manufacturers Caring for Pickens County would like to offer our support to the School District of Pickens County’s five-year maintenance plan. We have been working closely with the district and we are very enthusiastic about the quality of education and job skills that are attainable here.

While no one likes taxes and tax increases, sometimes they are necessary. We are blessed to have

Each year at this time, we focus for just a little while on all we have to be thankful for. It gets sandwiched in somewhere between the Thanksgiving sale of the year, the message to shop, buy, save, spend money and eat as much as you can.

Centuries ago, a group of people who came to this country ill-prepared and ignorant somehow survived. Many died before the first year was completed, and all suffered hunger and cold.

Now those phrases roll easily off the tongue and have lost meaning through endless repetition. But to any of us who have experienced bone-chilling cold — even briefly — we can imagine what that would have been like. Few of us have

Fact of the matter: Every morning when I get out of bed, my legs hurt.

The spot that has been on my leg for more than a year now has other spots to keep it company. Now I’m wearing leg braces to stop the spots from starting to bleed.

So after a night of sleeping in these leg braces, my legs are sore.

The good news is that for the past few days there have not been any new spots bleeding, and the older ones are finally healing. But until they heal completely, I will have to deal with pain.

Fortunately, my niece Rebecca has just finished getting her nursing degree, so she’s been coming by daily to change my bandage. She’s a lot better than my mother, who seems disgusted by the sores on my leg.

Saitta weighs in on long-term plan

Dear Editor,

The School District of Pickens County administration presented its long-term plan to the public and the board. While annual revenue is growing at a 4 percent clip, the administration still wants to spend more money than is coming in, so it is proposing two separate tax increases.

The first is a 4.8-mill property tax increase to borrow another $5.8 million each year for building needs, and the second is an 8.5-mill property tax increase over the next five years to fund two extra employee pay raises, more technology spending and boosting supplies. In total, it adds up

Last year I would have cringed when I heard “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” crooning out of the speakers in my car at the beginning of November. This year, I turned up the volume knob and starting singing along. Christmas seems to come earlier than it did when I was a kid, but I think I understand why.

I’ve been back in the full-time work-force for almost two years now. As a single parent to two precocious “tween” daughters, my day starts the minute my alarm jars me out of bed at 4:30 a.m. No matter how much I plan ahead, the hours of 6-7:30 a.m. are a whirlwind of breakfast preparation, wardrobe crises, hair styling, and the inevitable “Mom, I forgot I have to have (fill in the blank) TODAY!”

After I make it through the carpool loop relatively unscathed, I’m off to work for the next eight to 10 hours, depending

What’s the difference between gossip and news? Gossip is information about other people’s personal affairs which usually proves to be untrue and is often told with malicious intent.

There must be something about gossip that people become addicted to. Otherwise, there would be no explanation for the apparently unlimited appetite of the public for stories about other people’s tragedies and relationships.

How many times have you heard someone begin a conversation with the sentence, “I don’t know if this is true or not,

So Friday I reached what I thought was a milestone. After taking the bandages off my leg, the doctor told me that if I would get a leg wrap I would no longer have to wear a bandage.

I was ecstatic. Leg wraps would mean that the bandage would not need to be changed every week. I would be able to take a shower every day, which many of my friends were even happier than I about.

The agreement was that I would pick up my new leg wraps that afternoon. I was happy and figured it would not hurt if

Against all amnesty

Dear Editor,

I am opposed to any kind of amnesty for illegals. I think we should attach a provision that will charge illegals “rent” for being in our county illegally to any bill that will actually get through Congress.

Illegals cost us money in many ways. We should charge them rent for being here illegally. In fact, we could waive the rent if they leave our Country and do not come back. This provision must be designed by attorneys so that it does not