Category Archives: Opinions
Growing concern with data centers
As of December16, 2025 there were 4300 data centers and that number increased by 200 in the last three months. I think Pickens County council needs to be prepared for 
them too approach our area. Here is why.
Data centers like large, relatively flat areas, near population
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Exploring courses on AARP
Are you a member of AARP? Even with the recent price increase (from $15 to $20 per year), there is still a lot to recommend it.
The AARP Skills Builder for Work section is a valuable benefit, even if we’re not still working, because the skills can be helpful to us now for our cognitive health, memory and
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Clunky Phones & Party Lines
In rural Georgia the party line was our lot back in the early 1950s. When the phone 
rang, we counted. Our phone rang two times. Three for another and so forth. Today’s younger set sure missed out on some fun times. Well, that’s okay. Cell phones will teach them a few lessons.
Back in the day, calls didn’t drop, folks dropped; eavesdropped, that is. Phone privacy didn’t exist. Sarah, the switchboard operator on the Andy Griffith
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Climate change is a farm issue
Whereas: As of June 2025 the carbon dioxide level was 430 ppm the highest it’s been in 3 million years and increasing at a rate of approximately 4 ppm per year…
And whereas: The Happy Berry Inc., is losing about 18 chill hours a year over the past 20 years, dropping from 1100 chill hours plus or minus to 900 chill hours plus or
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A trip across the desert
Matthew 2: 13 “And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
We are told in the scripture (Matthew 2), when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a star appeared to wise men in the east. Those wise men saw the star and followed it to Jerusalem seeking the Christ child.
“In the east” may have been in Israel or it may have been in the country we today know as Jordan or Iran (Persia or Babylon). Considering their gifts, the wise men may possibly have come from Arabia.
Many have attempted to provide natural phenomenon such as a gathering of planets, to 
explain the star. This writer believes the star was a special, supernatural, one-time appearing object to guide the wise men to Jesus.
Matthew 2: 9 states emphatically the star “went before them and stood over the place where the
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Courier Letters to the Editor 1-28-26
Don’t ask what if?
Dear Editor,
An old year is over and gone and a new year is starting with so much ahead. Like the pages of a book we turn over another page to be read one day at a time. What will you write on the pages of the new year? It’s up to you. Believe in yourself!
I’ve seen 71 New Years days but won’t see many more. I may be gone before this one
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