LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Peaceful and loving’ march gets praise
Praise the Lord!
Can the government legally force you to wear a mask?
In a pandemic, governments have the authority to do a lot of things that would otherwise be questionable.
A tribute to the Thomas family and the News & Press
A special thank you to the Thomas family for their service as publishers of the News & Press for 64 years.
Looking more deeply at the biography of a place
By Tom Poland The book is 9.25 inches long, 6.5 inches wide, and less than an inch thick. Its 182 pages present a world well-fed folks can only guess at. Harry Crews got just one Christmas gift as a boy, a Baby Ruth bar. That prepares us for a brutal world beautifully described. Georgia writer Crews used a typewriter but I choose to believe he wrote in longhand, a strong masculine script, each word articulated by his rough, raspy...
My house was robbed; here’s what I learned from it
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net What gets me is that he came through the front door, on a busy Friday, in full daylight. No skulking around the back for this Darlington burglar. No waiting until dark. No going in on a sleepy weekend or a holiday. He just marched up the front steps, forced open the old, conventional lock (no deadbolt) with a screwdriver and walked in. How do I know he used a screwdriver? He left it lying...