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I read a magazine article this week about how the extreme heat, exacerbated by global warming, was affecting workers who have to do their work outdoors under extreme heat conditions. Mostly the article zeroed in on farm workers, who labor in the fields, picking fruits and vegetables, harvesting watermelons, bending their backs and straining their…

It’s not rocket science, City Council members. The solution to the ongoing golf course fiasco is right there in front of your eyes if you’d only open your eyes and see it. Avid golfers all over Jeff Davis County and neighboring counties can see it, so why is the council so blind? When I decided…

When I attended Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) training as a member of the Hazlehurst City Council, instructors taught city officials that they cannot disclose what is discussed in an “executive session.” Since pretty much the same folks that teach GMA classes also teach Association County Commissions Georgia (ACCG) classes, I feel confident in assuming county…

What a small world this is. Barnie O’Quinn Jr. writes this week about the closing of the Pinova Plant in Brunswick which was formerly the Hercules Plant. My father worked as a machinist at the Hercules Plant back in the 1940s. That’s why my sister and I were both born in Brunswick in the late…

As readers have most likely learned by now, this issue of the Ledger marks the end of my fiftieth year at the helm of this newspaper. So, let me tell you about the very first person I met in Jeff Davis County after I crossed over the Altamaha River via the Uvalda Bridge for the…

I never really knew Tony Hughes. Never knew much about him. Where he was from. What he did for a living. What his life’s dreams were. I suspected — correctly — he was from around here. A simple man of simple means. Comfortable with where he was and who he was …. a blessed man,…

I recently stumbled on yet another example of how social media is devastating our country. This time it was a YouTube video of a woman from Massachusetts who travelled all the way to Arizona to talk to legislators about how she had been abused for simply asking for information about what her upcoming kindergarten student…