GreeneCountyNewsOnline is inaugurating a new occasional feature with the start of a new year. Remember this? will bring back news posts from earlier years. This was initially posted Nov. 23, 2016. The Greene County supervisors are revisiting updating the heating/cooling system at the courthouse after supervisor Mick Burkett said a department head meeting last week got “rather heated” over the…
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View from my window: A Greene County Christmas tradition
~by Mary Weaver Sunday afternoon December 8, I completed one of my Christmas traditions by attending a concert by the Town and Country Band at Central Christian Church in Jefferson. Nestled into the sanctuary, amidst the beautifully decorated trees and the fireplace glowing warmth on the large computer monitor, I enjoyed listening to familiar and traditional Christmas melodies. The band…
Read MoreCongress members’ job is to help us; let them know what you’d like them to do
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I’m starting either a long haul or a rapid burn-out – contacting my federal representatives every day…. and if I do it three times a week I’ll feel okay about it. Writing to or calling my two Senators and my one House member about something I want them to do is all of our jobs…
Read MoreWhen words help
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The result of the recent election was not figured out by any of the dozens of pollsters before the vote. But after the vote, deducers by the dozens knew exactly what to tell the Democrats they did wrong. The whole lead-up to Nov. 5 was madness that took in millions of dollars to impress the voters, who…
Read MoreView from my window: Hunting for a favorite old recipe
The Christmas Season is here. Among the many activities it is a time for baking cookies. Cookies make memories. I have been searching for a recipe for the date rolled cookies my aunt made only at Christmas. I was at her house once when she was making them. It was a very tedious and monotonous job. Cutting the dates into…
Read MoreOf, by and for…
~a column by Colleen O’Brien It is Thanksgiving week. We are thankful that the election is over, and things seem kind of quiet . . . if we’re not watching, listening to or reading the dailies out of the Big House in DC – from which we are over-informed about distasteful appointees, hidden investigations of them, leaks about them, purposeful…
Read MoreHow to live after the fact…
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I’m spending a couple of weeks in Pittsburgh, PA, an absolutely beautiful, heavily treed old river city – in fact, a three-river city: the rivers Allegheny and Monongahela meet and make the Ohio River, a good place for a French fort to be built in 1754 and then the British Fort Pitt, built in 1761…
Read MoreThe view from my window – Public health and vaccines
~by Mary Weaver I was never able to sit on my grandpa’s lap as Thaddus Voshel Dorris died at age 36 from tuberculosis. I had an Aunt Alpharetta who died of scarlet fever, and Uncle Raymond and Uncle Thaddeus died from diphtheria, ll three as infants or below the age of 4. Granted this was back in 1911-1918, but I…
Read MoreMore details of questioned abatement in Churdan
November 12, 2024 To the editor, Let us unpack together this sheriffs’ response to my letter of the past week. First, Mr Williams begins upholding his action against me by stating that I failed to mention a court order. This is most certainly untrue as I state clearly that all items in that order had previously been removed from my site. On…
Read MorePress at fault for truthlessness in public discourse
~a column by Colleen O’Brien “A hero is someone who tries always to do the right thing, even as the walls are closing in.” ~American historian Heather Cox Richardson, 11/10/2024 Trump has yet to “do the right thing.” What we need is a press that writes about decency as if it is necessary, not repeat lies as if they were of…
Read MoreThe day before
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I wrote a column to be published here the day before the election, but there is a rule among news outlets that one cannot write a political piece too close to an election because the other side does not have a chance to respond. So, I will send it now…and add a thing…
Read MoreView from my window: Calendar and seasons
November 6, 2024 I usually share something political with you in “VIEW,” but not today. I will share, ‘I voted,” and I hope that you did also. Voting is not a passive act. Many have sacrificed and some given their lives to maintain our Democracy. While we may not know the election outcome for several days, let us begin to…
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