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Letter: Jesus’ love is it
More than 2,000 years ago, God's precious son Jesus Christ was sent to our world for the salvation of all races and nations. Our holy and heavenly God gave everyone the chance to make the ultimate decision: to select Jesus as the Lord and Savior of our souls. It is our decision to choose Jesus. His love is it.
Letter: Don’t take our guns
To the editor: Our great nation has made many enemies over the past several years. Since the world's largest Army is comprised of U.S. citizens, who stand ready to fight and defend our homeland, there is no reasonable excuse for anyone to want to disarm our homegrown militia, except our enemies who wish to destroy our free nation. As far as Congress is concerned, as well as state and local governments, there are ...
Letter: Civil marriage vs. religious marriage
To the editor: There are two parts of the marriage process - the civil license that you get from your local government and the religious ceremony. As far as the law and the economy are concerned, possessing a marriage license is the crucial part. It causes a couple to be treated as a joint partnership for legal purposes in terms of contracts and liabilities. The loan holder doesn't care if you were married ...
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Archive By Section - Letters
Bad side of growth
Dear Editor: I have seen multiple articles, letters to the editor and editorials in the past few months regarding the development of Newton County. Overlay plans, town centers, consultants - all the buzzwords with which I am familiar. You see, I moved to Covington from what it appears we are trying to become.
Alcovy graduation
Dear Editor: On May 4, I learned of a meeting at Alcovy High school, that graduating students were informed by the staff that there would be a pat-down of each graduating senior prior to graduation to assure that no beach balls, cell phones or car keys were brought into the graduation area. I sent an email that night to all members of the Board of Education and to the superintendent asking if this was the policy of NCSS and who made the decisions to do pat-downs?
Letter: A thank you from FaithWorks
Dear Editor: FaithWorks has reached a milestone in its service to the community. As of the end of March, FaithWorks has served over 15,000 individuals in Newton County. We thank our sponsoring churches, area businesses, individuals and organizations for their support that has allowed us to provide mortgage/rental and utility assistance to our neighbors in need. We are especially grateful to our volunteers who give their time and talents to benefit others.
Letter: Organizations that deserve recognition
Dear Editor: This is a personal opinion, not one representing the Lions Club. The importance of 'quality of life' factors - such as our active local arts and cultural organizations - in attracting new employers is emphasized. Those who live in and around Newton County had two marvelous and free opportunities to experience a variety of music this past weekend. The 80-piece DeKalb Symphony Orchestra presented its annual Picnic Pops Concert on the lovely Newton ...
Silent Auction and Wine Tasting
Dear Editor: The Society of SVDP would like to thank all who had a hand in making the Silent Auction and Wine Tasting on April 27, a success. We had a profound outpouring of generously donated items both local and beyond. All of the profit will go to the Society which is a nonprofit organization. Fox Vineyards (wine and Fox Vineyard glasses), Sherry Odum (catered the event), Michael Frederick (music), are so much appreciated. We ...
Free speech
Dear Editor: I, Shannon Black, come forward to identify myself as "MsLoy" and "KBeet" named in a civil action on free speech web comments. I do not agree with the attack on free speech, but by coming out I share a voice for employees under attack who need their jobs. While I removed my child from NCSS last year, I maintain close internal contacts and will continue to share comments with the public through the ...
Letter: Lack of judgment
Dear Editor: What a shame! A small town paper advertising prostitution with a large, attention-getting provocative figure of a prostitute on the front page of your Sunday edition.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor: Much to the dismay of a handful of people in our town, I am capable of both spelling and writing the English language as well as Spanish.
Political robo-calls
To the editor: Considering that political robo-calls are universally reviled by us citizens, it is obvious that our "representatives" who use them have nothing but contempt for us. And then they wonder why we have lost our trust in them.
Public forum on school topics
To the editor: I am writing to invite Newton County residents of all districts to my fourth public forum on school topics. I will host "School Board on Your Corner #4" on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Eastside High School. I will bring updates from my April training delivered by the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA) on "Finance & Accountability" and allow time for public input. While I represent ...
Open letter to the Board of Education
To the editor: A recent newspaper article in the Newton Citizen brought out that a school board member was writing a column in the Newton Citizen that had his title and position from the Board of education. I know some of you may not agree with some of Mr. (Jeff) Meadors' views, and from time-to-time, I do not either. But in a free society it is healthy to have a public debate on government. One ...
Simple fix for domestic oil shortage
To the editor: One of the largest known reserves in the world, now producing oil from North Dakota, is selling 100 percent of all the domestic oil from these wells to markets overseas. What is wrong with this picture is quite clearly visible at the gas pumps all over the United States. Some markets are reporting a near $5 per gallon for consumers while those same consumers are paying federal income taxes which go to ...
Pull the plug on the Charter Academy
To the editor: The Chamber of Commerce with the support of Newton County and the city of Covington has made a lot of progress to bring manufacturing jobs to Newton County. It takes a community effort to show Newton County as a place to work, shop and raise a family. It is disturbing to see an Associated Press report on the 11 Alive website titled "The 78 worst schools in Georgia" and that the Challenge Charter Academy that the Newton County Board of Education runs is on that list.
If it ain't broke
To the editor: Covington and Newton County are blessed with having several employees on the payroll who are experts at fixing stuff that isn't broken. Although the list is endless. I will only take up enough of your time to name a few.
What's the story with the paper?
To the editor: Coincident with the amazing shrinking physical size of the Covington News (now about the size of the Rampage School Newspaper at Newton County High School when I was there) I have noticed that Nat Harwell's weekly column has been shelved. Frankly, his articles were the reason I had returned to reading The Covington News after many years away from Covington.
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