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...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It was wrong to bar student from graduation
I am a retired school counselor.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The time to dismantle systemic racism is now
The killing of George Floyd and the deaths of countless other black people murdered by lawless police and hate organizations across America makes clear the need for drastic, intentional changes to eradicate biases and prejudices toward people of color, especially black people, who built this country from our blood, sweat and tears during the height of slavery and colonialism.
Life on the West End: The preacher wore white ducks
This is a story that never should have happened, but since it did, here it is, just as I remember it.
The power of the outhouse flower
I remember Mom talked of a flower with a strange name, hollyhocks.