Category Archives: Opinions
The wild and wonderful world of dreams
If only my daddy had remembered that when he came flying in over Lake Hartwell with water skis on, he should have landed on the lake instead of in the road.
Then we might never have had this dispute with Taco Bell because their delivery guys had to wait an hour for me to get back home after traveling in my little 
motorboat to pick up my dad next to the train trestle in Clemson. He wasn’t hurt.
And I would have been sure to order the right kind of cheese, because after all, it was my daddy’s
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login [pms-login
Accountable for our spiritual sensitivity
I remember the day we brought Teddy, our English bulldog puppy, into our home. The breeder told us he was eight weeks old, but after receiving his papers, we noticed he was actually only six weeks old at the time.
He was a healthy little bruiser, and we would laugh at his stumbling and being uncoordinated, but now we realize it was because he was such a baby. My wife and I would sit on the porch in the evenings and watch him explore around in the front yard. He was so happy as he would jump and roll in the grass and investigate his new
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Courier Letters to the Editor 4-6-22
Congrats to Ron Barnett
Dear Editor,
Ron Barnett, congratulations on your award from the South Carolina Press Association for your excellent article “The hand of God,” concerning the C-119 Flying Boxcar aircraft that crashed in Liberty on February 1960 with no major damage and no injuries.
A great article, and it was fun working with you on the background for the article.
Dean Thomas
Liberty
On Sunday alcohol sales
Dear Editor,
I find it very interesting that for all these years Pickens County has gotten along just fine for there to not be alcohol sales on the Lord’s day, and now this county
How to put a chicken in every pot
I always thought chickens were not very bright. And I still think that, based on personal experience.
I’ve seen chickens escape from a chicken pen, then run frantically around the outside perimeter clearly wanting to go back inside while I stand with the open door calling, “Here, chick, chick, chick,” to no avail.
I’ve seen hens choose to lay eggs in some other hen’s nest and then look befuddled when evening comes and another hen has settled down in the nest where the invader lay her eggs.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine that chickens are their own worst enemies.
However, there are exceptions to every rule. I have no idea what the average chicken’s IQ is. It has to be more
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Without a burden, we will not pray
The key to being a good soldier is listening carefully and being obedient. No one, especially God, wants a servant who decides to be absent without leave or who is rebellious and always wants to do things their way.
Every effective military has strict discipline for a purpose, and this is for making sure the soldier is focused on what the leader is saying. One reason for going through boot camp is to learn certain skills while training the individual to build strength so they are in excellent physical condition. Going into battle is very strenuous, and demands for each team member to be strong and confident.
But even more important than building physical endurance, their minds must be educated, transformed and
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
A worthy effort
Imagine being one of the 50 or so people having lived in one community for most — if not all — of life. Now, imagine the future of the very place you call home is up for sale. You and your family are left not knowing what’s next, totally helpless and sitting on the sidelines.
There’s more to the story than just that for today’s coverage about ongoings in Central, but it’s a decent starting point.
The land on which a predominantly black neighborhood called “Head Town” sits is on the market at
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Living on Social Security benefits
We’ve now experienced our 2022 Social Security benefit amount for a couple of months, the 5.9 percent increase. How are you doing?
The problem is that the COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) is calculated from July to September the year before. Yes, prices were inching up then, but by December, we were seeing the writing on the wall when the annual Consumer Price Index was already up 7 percent.
Add to that the hefty Medicare Part B increase to cover the cost of Aduhelm, the Alzheimer’s drug most of us
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Paying tribute to the first ladies of the past
My book club meets monthly to review books. Each member picks one book a year, and every time we end up with an assortment of good books. This is good for all of us, as we can fall into a rut and stay with the same kinds of books we’d normally seek out.
This month, our book was “Upstairs at the White House; My Years with the First Ladies,” by J. B. West, who was a head honcho in the White House for 30 years. The book covered six administrations, from Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt to Richard and Pat Nixon.
It isn’t a tell-all scandal-laden account of their private lives, but a record of their time in the White House, while
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Browsing the World Book
| When I was about 9 years old, one of my favorite things was flipping through the colorful and informative pages of the World Book Encyclopedia. Actually, I still love to do that. |
In fact, I have the complete 1963 edition of World Book, the same ones my dad bought for us when I was a student at Calhoun-Clemson Elementary School.
The thing that intrigues me is that whenever I go to look something up, I always come across a lot of other interesting stuff before I find what I was looking for. I usually end up reading two or three articles that I would
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login [pms-login
The dangers of drugs and alcohol
We are in the middle of National Drug and Alcohol Week, an initiative launched by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to stimulate educational events in communities so teens can learn what science has taught us about drug use and addiction.
Underage drinking can cause many negative consequences, both in the short and long term.
The following facts are from NIDA.
Research shows that young people’s brains keep developing well into their 20s. Alcohol can alter this
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
