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Unfair to Obama
Dear Editor: You folks at the Covington newspaper are a piece of bad work. You waste no time at all giving your negative thoughts about President Obama. However, you fail to give the entire truth. For example, you decided to display a cartoon last week referencing what the majority of Americans feel about the president’s approval rating — which showed they disapprove of his job performance. But what you did ...




Thank You, Community
Dear Editor: Several months ago the hospital had its annual fundraiser. All of the proceeds from ticket sales and auction items went toward the purchase of a piece of equipment for the neonatal unit of the hospital. We, along with R.L.’s Off the Square, offered a progressive evening for 24 guests, starting at our home and ending with a four-course dinner at the restaurant. Not only did Robert and Trish ...




Well Done, City Council
Dear Editor: Kudos to the City Council for two things. First, for being forward thinking enough to absorb credit card fees on payments made on utility accounts by customers with credit cards. The only way local governments will survive in this economy is to think like a business person. If you can get your money now without risk of a returned check and if you have ...




Foreclosures and Public Figures
Dear Editor: I have been reading the Newton County legals in The Covington News since the early 1950s. Back then, the foreclosure advertisements might have one or two sheriff’s sales of personal property on the square, and you probably only saw 12 to 14 real property foreclosures in a year. You more than likely knew the mortgagor, and you were certainly familiar with the addresses. I ...




City Lowers Ethical Standard
Dear Editor: Since 1962 the Covington City Charter has forbidden the mayor, members of the City Council and city employees from doing business with the city during their term of office or term of employment. This is a conflict-of-interest standard that protects the public from insider abuse of power and position and protects office-holders from the public perception of self-dealing. This week the City Council decided ...




Public indecency
Dear Editor: In reading your article, there was no mention in the article about the woman driver of the tractor trailer getting a ticket for not keeping her eyes on the road. How can you take you eyes off the road long enough to pick up a cell phone and take the picture.




Letter to the editor - Responsibilities
Dear Editor: The Liquor By the Drink Aug. 6 editorial and cartoon are right on target.




Making sense by-the-drink alcohol sales
Dear Editor: Over the past week I’ve pondered the alcohol by the drink situation, and read the letters to the editor. Let’s get a few facts straight on the overall situation: — Dinner restaurants, particularly chains, will only locate where they can sell liquor. They (Olive Garden, Chili’s, etc.) will not even consider Newton County until alcohol by the glass is allowed. ...




Kudos to the NCSO
Dear Editor: On Tuesday Aug. 3, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Cornelia Police Department in apprehending a suspect wanted for armed robbery here in Habersham County. In addition, investigators with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the investigation, together with the Loganville Police Department, Walton County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies. This letter is to commend Sheriff Ezell ...




Eight years later, still getting information
Dear Editor: Some things just don’t change. Eight years ago the Board of Commissioners refused to put the county alcohol-by-the-drink issue to a public vote citing they didn’t have enough time and information. Two of the commissioners who on Aug. 3, 2010, refused once again to let the public vote on the issue are the same commissioners who voted no in 2002 for the same reason. What have they been ...




The News and the commissioners
Dear Editor: I found your thoughts about the Liquor Ordinance vote quite interesting. While you declared that Mort Ewing’s vote was cast as a reflection of "his moral views on drinking of any kind," you concluded to that J.C. Henderson’s negative attributes formed the basis for his vote. I find your remarks about Earnest Simmons to be particularly disturbing, however. While you ...




Pundits and politicians
Dear Editor: I like Mort Ewing. He has the fortitude to "do the right thing." In the Aug. 6 edition of the Covington News, the News’ editorial said Mr. Ewing "could have trusted the people of the county to do the right thing and vote for the good of the financial health of the county." The insinuation being that Mr. Ewing did the wrong thing. What ...




The commissioners were right
Dear Editor: I want to thank The Covington News for their coverage of the recent alcohol by the drink referendum in Newton County. However, I must say that in my opinion your editorial cartoon was distasteful and not an accurate portrayal of these three commissioners. Having attended the work session of the Newton Board of Commissioners on Monday, Aug. 2, I did ...




When you’re in a hole, stop digging
Dear Editor: The only thing more painful than seeing someone deep in a hole still digging is to find yourself down there with them. Which is why many of us were so pained by the Newton County Board of Commissioners’ latest blunder Tuesday night, voting not put a liquor by the drink referendum on the upcoming ballot. Each day, our county slides deeper into a financial ...




Liquor by the drink
Dear Editor: Many thanks to Newton County Commission Chair Kathy Morgan, and Commissioners Nancy Schultz and Tim Flemming for supporting the "liquor by the drink" referendum for the county. These leaders showed true vision and leadership for our county. Too many of our tax dollars are going across the county line to restaurants that we can’t attract to our county because of our archaic laws. The ...




Pathetic voter turnout
Dear Editor: To the voters of Newton County: As a patriotic American, I was appalled to learn of the only 20 percent voter-turnout last week for the primary election. There are two means of voting to make it easier for the voter (other than the polls) — absentee ballots or early voting, and unless you were ill that day, you do not have an ...




Letter to the editor... Fight on, Arizona
Dear Editor: As those of us who actually have a generational birthright claim of citizenship to this once sovereign nation wait with bated breath for a politically appointed judge in Arizona to determine if Arizona has the right to protect its borders and citizenry, this "administration" unbelievably squanders more money that we don’t have to oppose sanity. How could any rational thought condone and actually promote stealing one’s way into our ...




Letter to the editor... Salem Camp
Dear Editor: Thank you for the many things you did to make the 182nd Salem Camp meeting a huge success.




Letter to the editor... The deal with seatbelts
Dear Editor: I don’t understand the law for seat belts. Once, people in trucks didn’t have to wear seat belts but, now they do. How can people ride on the back of a truck and even stand up? What about people on motorcycles who have no seat belts?




Letter to the editor - Newborn and Porterdale Play Smart with Railroad
Dear Editor: The city councils of Newborn and Porterdale have shown the kind of leadership and vision that the city council of Covington sadly rejected in a vote that the Covington News editorial board wisely opined as "taken for political reasons only." By entering into a non-binding agreement with the Norfolk Southern Railroad, Newborn and Porterdale will be able to continue exploring the potential purchase of the abandoned NS rail line ...




Letter to the editor - Remembering Coach Crowell
Dear Editor: I just wanted to express my sympathy to the family of Billy Crowell and to all his friends and loved ones in Newton County. B.C. was one of the very few mentors in my life, and his devotion to the kids of Porterdale (I am proud to count myself among that group) was unparalleled. Being tall for my age and having played "back alley" basketball every day of my ...




Letter to the editor - Mike, Mack and Main Street
Dear Editor: The July 3rd band festival on the Square will go down as one of the high points of summer in Newton County, in my opinion. Well over 1,000 people packed the area and enjoyed a wide range of local music until well after dark. It was a free and family-oriented event, but also a community-building event that brought together all ages in a beautiful and safe setting in the ...




Letters to the editor: Hats off to Porterdale
Dear Editor: I would like to express my thanks to the city of Porterdale for stepping up to the plate and providing Newton County with a great fireworks show.




Letter to the Editor: No round-about needed
Dear Editor: In reference to Brenda Lazenby’s letter in the June 27 paper, I applaud her. We are not St. Simons Island or Bend, Oregon. We do not need a round-about at Turner Lake Road and Clark Street to confuse people. We only need turning lanes.







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