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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
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.
Where's the filter?
To the editor: The job of a journalist is to be a filter. The assignments staff and/or news editor chooses what stories to cover. The photo-journalist chooses what to shoot and what not to record. The reporter chooses what facts to include and what sound-bites or quotes to include and exclude. And the producer or editor is the final filter as to what approach to take on a story and what stories or other content to include or exclude.
What event were you at?
To the editor: Were you at the same event I was at on Wednesday? It is funny how one liberal using the power of the press can take a great event for our area and tarnish it on the front page of the newspaper, which I have never seen done before by your newspaper. You in one article may have undone all the good will between the people of the Newton and Rockdale areas made ...
Obama’s energy plan isn’t the answer
To the editor: I just finished reading your op ed on Newt Gingrich. I thought that you of all people would be honored to have the former speaker of the House visit Newton County. I would suppose that a visit from President Obama would have been more appropriate for your taste.
Sprucing up Oxford
To the editor: Thanks to Oxford College for what they have done to the properties along Ga. Highway 81/Emory Street and on Emory Street cross streets that they have purchased in recent years. I drive by these properties frequently, and they are always in very good shape as are the yards and their signage. Maintenance of these properties is an aesthetic benefit to Oxford.
There's a whole lot of good in the schools too
I have been a teacher and coach at Alcovy High School since the doors opened in 2006. Recently our school has received unfavorable press about a few incidents such as food fights. Your paper does a good job of reporting things that our school accomplishes such as athletic achievements and most recently being named an AP Honor school. But not surprisingly, many of the comments from readers were about the negative ...
Thanks for the memories
To the editor: As you know coach H. J. Wright passed away on January 27, 2011. By all accounts, he was loved and respected by many in the Covington community. Over the past year his contributions have been recognized and his life celebrated. At the onset you were there reporting the story. The Wright family would like to publicly thank you and all of the others who were so thoughtful and gracious in the ...
A tragic story
To the editor: You were correct on page three of Wednesday's Covington News under the heading "Our Thoughts" when you stated "Tragic Weekend." It was a horribly tragic accident; a life was taken. Mrs. Campbell was taken from her family and friends.
What's the deal with graduation?
To the editor: Last year I brought up the fact that the church where the class of 2011 graduation was going to held was being foreclosed on. Some in the school administration and a few of the school board members were upset that I questioned them, but some of the board members were very gracious. My intent was to make sure that the class of 2011 graduation is not ruined. I am concerned about the ...
Show me the vampire money
To the editor: In the "Our Thoughts" section of today's edition of The Covington News, the headline read "Vampires are OK." To quote The Covington News, "filming of the Diaries has brought millions of dollars in real revenue in the form of taxes and support of local merchants" to Covington and Newton County. Where exactly is this revenue that you speak of? While I am sure a few businesses have profited from the ...
Show me the vampire money
To the editor: In the "Our Thoughts" section of today's edition of The Covington News, the headline read "Vampires are OK." To quote The Covington News, "filming of the Diaries has brought millions of dollars in real revenue in the form of taxes and support of local merchants" to Covington and Newton County. Where exactly is this revenue that you speak of? While I am sure a few businesses have profited from the filming, to ...
Unqualified Applicants
To the editor: According to the Covington News, Newton County's unemployed are really in their unemployed dilemma through no fault but their own. But in reality, this whole education, training, lack of experience and skills narrative serves to sidetrack attention from the substantial shortage of jobs and corporate America's transgressions to ineffective teachers and supposedly under-educated workers. Fortunately, Governor Zell Miller made it possible for a technical school to be within 35 miles of each ...
Open invitation from BOE member
To the citizens and electorate of Newton County: I would like to invite all residents of Newton County and employees of all Newton County Schools to my third quarterly "School Board on Your Corner Forum" to be held at Alcovy High School auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6. The forum will follow the Alcovy High College Studies Panel organized by the Alcovy High Tools for College Success class to take place from 1 to ...
Thanks for supporting the Garden Club
To the editor: The Dec. 28 Covington News highlighted the effort by the Covington Garden Club Special Projects Committee and several City of Covington employees to refurbish and replant the Blue Star Memorial/Veterans Memorial Park. This park is at the corner of Ga. Highway 36 and Church Street and is at prominent entrances to Covington from the south.
The library
To the editor: As a long time resident of Newton County, we remember fondly the construction of the new library. We enjoyed an excellent library that provided a valuable resource to residents. Then came the short-sighted decision to build an annex. We had the construction money, but no one considered the operating costs. Now we have two libraries with no funding to fully staff the facilities or to buy books.
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