Columnist

Yet another Thanksgiving we can all celebrate together

Sixty Thanksgivings I will have celebrated as of Thursday of this week.  I had to think about this ...

Columnist

Does every vote really count?

You bet it does!   The recent election for Mayor of the City of Donalsonville proves that each and ...

Columnist

The only thing better than winning

It has been almost three years since my family bought the Donalsonville News.  For the most part, we ...

Columnist

How a butternut cake describes a small, Southern town

What do you do there?”  I have heard this question for 35 years while living in a small ...

Dan Ponder

Better than a ball game

In the football-crazed South, you probably can’t schedule a worse time for an event than a Saturday afternoon ...

Dan Ponder

We all have a dream

Another school year had just started and I was beginning the fourth grade. My ninth birthday was just ...

Dan Ponder

Preserving the Past for the Future

Most of the equipment was no longer used when I walked into the newspaper office for the first ...

Dan Ponder

Happy Middle Child Day

Monday of this week, August 12th, was a holiday that I wasn’t aware even existed. It was Happy ...

Dan Ponder

The Meaning of Grandchildren

Lois Wyse once said that grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. Having ...

Dan Ponder

Sometimes, there really is water over the dam!

The dam, or spillway, as some call it, was built as part of a road project many decades ...

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