Category Archives: Opinions
Another trip around the sun
Well, here we go again, for another trip around the sun!
I don’t have any evidence to back it up, but I can say with absolute certainty that the Earth’s orbit is speeding up.
It may have taken 365 days to get back around to this side of the sun, but it’s very obvious to me that the years used to last a whole lot longer than they do now. Maybe that’s why we’re having global warming — because the Earth is going faster.
Probably, 5G is what’s making the Earth speed up.
I don’t have proof of any of this, but I’m sure I’ll be able to verify it on some corner of the internet — unless Bill Gates hacks into my computer again and makes me keep reading all that Fake News.
Anyway, I’m afraid we’re off to a crazy start for another
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Counting on better days to come
Thanksgiving is usually the time of year we seriously give some thought to counting our blessings. We did that this year. But now that 2021 is almost here, we can rejoice and be thankful that we got 
through 2020 and have survived it.
And eventually, we will have the opportunity to be vaccinated against the deadly virus that’s changed our lives so drastically.
Never before has one tank of gas lasted forever. It’s been a deliberate decision, staying at home. But one brought about by circumstances. For where on Earth could we go? Nowhere is safe from the virus, so we can’t go out to eat, shop or to the movies.
The delivery truck is such a familiar sight in our
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Embracing hope for the New Year
I hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday, but I must admit that it did not seem like a normal Christmas. Yes, we sent out cards and decorated the tree, but there was something strange about the 
atmosphere.
The signs of the virus are everywhere, and I cannot help but think about how many families have been impacted by it. Some of you may have missed seeing your loved ones because it was not safe for them to
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Courier’s Letters to the Editor
Let’s hang together
Dear Editor,
2020 is a year that will be remembered for decades to come. 300,000 lives lost to coronavirus, which was proclaimed to be nothing but a hoax by some. Pray for the people who lost family and friends to this so-called hoax and for those who stubbornly refuse to believe it exists.
The elections are over, and I for one am glad. If these politicians are even half as bad as their
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Mayor asks for teamwork
The holiday season is upon us, and now we come to the part of the year where many of us truly look forward to the celebration of Christmas and the coming New Year.
Due to the virus, as a city, we have had to make decisions that we felt were in the best interest of our citizens. With a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Upstate and in Pickens County, I’m here today asking for your help.
Currently, we have a resolution in effect that recommends citizens adhere to the CDC guidelines of
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What Christmas offers this year
I guess it goes without saying that Christmas will be a little different this year for most of us.
It seems like every year you hear somebody say, “It doesn’t really feel like Christmas this year.” Usually, the complaint is that Christmas has become too commercialized — which is certainly true.
I think we all have some idyllic memories of Christmas past, filled with magic reindeer, snowflakes, Christmas carols and the joy of giving and receiving gifts around the Christmas tree.
And, of course, a baby in a manger.
This year, though, it’s not only unfulfilled holiday expectations and too much hustle and bustle that
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Disaster averted — we found a tree
If 2020 has taught us nothing else, we have learned that the everyday life we took so for granted has changed. The simple things we didn’t even think to count as blessings have vanished, and we’ve all had to adjust.
Day by day, we found that even though we were almost out of what we consider basic necessities, we can’t just run into the store and pick them up.
Often, if we tried to order something online we were shocked to see the words, “Out of Stock.” During the early days of the coronavirus, we couldn’t find bread. So then, when I decided to bake our own bread, there
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Courier Letters to the Editor 12-23-20
Soapstone thanks all for support
Dear Editor,
Our Soapstone Church family wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
We are grateful for all of your support over the years — this year especially!
With all your support and care, we have paid off the mortgage to our humble church and property and we are now entering Phase 2, establishing an endowment foundation to protect it for future generations.
We invite you all, once again, to celebrate the Soapstone fish fry in 2021. We will have our first fish
What the Framers intended?
I’ve been reading a very interesting book about the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It was written by a journalist who reports each day’s session as a daily news story.
Since the convention’s proceedings were closed to the public, there are no newspaper accounts of what was going on in the State House in Philadelphia during that fateful summer. They even kept all the windows closed — all through the sweltering heat — to prevent eavesdropping. But the author went back through the notes of James Madison and others to reconstruct how the great event unfolded.
Much like politics in America in 2020, it was not pretty.
The way people talk about the Constitution these days,
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Festival of Lights
The first Jewish-American soldier of the Revolutionary War was killed on the banks of the Seneca River. Francis Salvador was a Jewish plantation owner from Charleston. He came from the 
Sephardic Jewish community in London and was the first Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies. He was also the first Jewish-American person to be killed in the Revolutionary War.
It happened on Aug. 1, 1776, in the town of Esseneca, a Cherokee settlement located along the banks of the Seneca River. Maj. Andrew Williamson and his force of 2,300 men had camped along the Seneca River when
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