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Erin Spatz: After school activities

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:47:05 GMT

So it seems that my kids may not be in enough after school activities

Every new sports season I offer to sign the kids up. More often than not, they respond with a no.
They each have played sports or taken some sort of music lessons, and seemed to ...

John Brock: Americans face poor choice between stupidity and incompetence

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:41:03 GMT

Wow! What a startling chain of events that continues to plague the Obama Administration as one scandal after another raises its ugly head. One must wonder where it will all lead.

As I have watched events unfold, my thoughts have vacillated between t ...

Debby Summey: ‘Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In’

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:30:03 GMT

“Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In” was the title of a song performed by Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn in 1965. Dean Martin also used this phrase on his television variety show in the 60s. Before that, early radio used the phras ...

Gloria Ford:What a blessing to have a day to honor our mothers

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:59 GMT

“He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.”

Job 5:19

How wonderful to greet the day
Whether in sunshine or in rain
To know we have another chance
To live a life of gain
Maybe things are not qu ...

Ann Ipock: Ipock-a-Lips - Dumb and dumber (or would that be, dumbest?)

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:23:59 GMT
It was to be an impromptu get-together. I hadn’t seen my friend, Jessica, since Katie’s wedding in October, though she lives a mere ten houses away. Isn’t that just the way it is? I see a friend from Atlanta more often than I see Je ...

Op Ed: County followed City of Georgetown’s wishes in East Bay Park plans

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:20:50 GMT
By Sel Hemingway

We at Georgetown County were surprised recently by remarks from some City of Georgetown officials to the effect that the county has been unwilling to make improvements at East Bay Park.

The county and the city have long had, and co ...

Looking Back — and Forward

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:18:17 GMT
A hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not completely mentally deranged.

Who would have believed that ...

Robbin Bruce: I was doin’ so good, but you know me!

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:15:27 GMT
Well, you may not be able to believe it but for once in my life I have been able to keep my mouth shut. We are down to the last forty days or so, and I have yet to tick anybody off. Which if I say so my self, that’s a record. For the last three ...

Cover-up

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:27:10 GMT
By Oliver North

WASHINGTON — We all know about the notorious Obama “kill list.” CIA Director John Brennan proudly told us about that last year when he described how the O-Team decides which Americans should be executed by Hellfire ...

Achieving Success for Teens and Parents

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:25:59 GMT
By Al Foderaro

During their teen years children are being asked to start making some very important decisions about choosing career clusters and career majors. As a result of having to make these choices, many students can be identified as being &ld ...

Erin Spatz: Breaking bread together

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:24:07 GMT
When I was a kid we sat down at the table every night as a family and ate dinner together. For the life of me, I cannot recall a single conversation we had at the dinner table, but I can remember what time dinner was served, 6:15.

I also cannot reca ...

John Brock: Mark Sanford can shoot from hip but Vets must take gun classes

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:20:24 GMT
Much of US history involves dealing with South Carolina and South Carolinians. With the election of disgraced Mark Sanford to the U.S. House of Representatives, the saga continues.

Sanford, because of his marital infidelities and lies concerning his ...

Write it down Robbin, write it down

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:07 GMT

The other night about one in the morning, when like most people I should have been sound asleep, my mind was running through the beginnings of a column. I do that a lot, for some reason that seems to be the time I come up with most of my columns. Oh, ...

Debby Summey:Scandal is nothing new

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:45:36 GMT
Scandal is reported everywhere these days ... you’re exposed to it every time you turn on your television, pick up a newspaper or magazine, or log onto your Facebook account. Sometimes people long for “the good ol’ days” ...

Gloria Ford:Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:40:54 GMT
“For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

Acts 2:39

Let us be thankful for another day. It is amazing how God guides our lives in the sma ...

Erin Spatz: Dressing ‘age appropriate’

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:02:30 GMT
Summer time brings all kinds of fun things. Beach days and cook outs. Long, lovely, lazy days.

And it all brings a shortage of clothes. I don’t mean we don’t have enough. I mean some of the summer clothes are really, really short. As in, ...

John Brock: Can “Community Organizers” make good US presidents?

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:52:17 GMT
As president of these United States, Barack Obama has proved to be an outstanding “Community Organizer.” But what we really need is a leader of ALL Americans — not just an isolated community.

The principal life experience of the c ...

Debby Summey:Time marches on

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:28:22 GMT
I received the nicest email from Georgetown native Frances Joyner Gorsuch. She and I were at Winyah High School together. She sent me a letter she found on the Georgetown County Digital Library website (GCDL), and it made me cry. It made her cry, it ...

Gloria Ford: Let the joy of the Lord be your strength

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:25:31 GMT
“Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”

Psalm 29:2

Hopefully you have had a wonderful week with good things happening one right after another; if this has not been the case for you, ...

State Comptroller General helps protect your wallet

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:28:25 GMT
By Richard Eckstrom

If you’re the person who keeps up with bills and balances your family checkbook, you can definitely relate to the role of a comptroller general.

That’s my title, state comptroller general. Many folks in state g ...

Resident constituents remain top priority

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:10:38 GMT
By Senator Ray Cleary
SC Senate District 34

I believe that less government is the best government and that my job as a State Senator is to represent the best interests of the people who live and work in my district. That means keeping taxes as low a ...

Robbin Bruce: I think it’s spring, but I’m not positive

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:07:56 GMT
I don’t know about you people, but so far this has been a confusing year. Here it is the first of May, and if you asked me, it might as well be the first of March. I stepped out on the porch this morning, and stepped back in the house and put m ...

Being Presidential

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:06:18 GMT
By Oliver North

WASHINGTON — On April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. He and the members of both houses of Congress then assembled in the unfinished ...

Ann Ipock: Ipock-a-Lips – Who am I?

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:21:53 GMT
Please read the title of today’s column and know: this is not a silly game. I mean, it’s not Halloween, right? I have no plans to go to a masquerade party and I don’t have amnesia. So here’s the thing: Yes, I do know who I am. ...

Erin Spatz: Amazing things you find in the dryer

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:44:03 GMT
We all know that socks disappear in the dryer. It is one of life’s great mysteries as to where they go.
Some secret sock pile in the sky, I guess.
Some day when our house is really old and about to be demolished I think we’ll find ...