Mr. Fitzgerald, I am not a “right wing” Republican, so let’s get that out first. However, I find your left leanings and drivel just so far left that you may fall off the edge of the earth, so please be careful.
If you want a “thinking conservative” to answer you, you got one. But I work [...]

After a three hour standoff with an Atlanta SWAT team, James Scott Carringer, 42 of Young Harris, GA ended his own life April 8.
On Tuesday, April 6, Carringer drove to Kennesaw, GA and met a relative at Dick’s Sporting Goods parking lot. He then abducted the 19-year-old female, drove her to a remote part of [...]

Somewhere in the Middle
By: Paula Canup
Sentinel Columnist
My sister recently asked, “Will someone please explain to me how we are supposed to save money when Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security are going broke, and we are going to cover 32 million more people?  Why don’t I understand this?”  She is certainly not alone in finding it [...]

By:  Jim Fitzgerald
Sentinel Columnist
Rumors and misinformation make the rounds regularly but what intrigues me the most are the people that repeat them, apparently without question. It is almost like listening to Fox news without ever turning on the television.  For the millions of people who hear these rumors and have not been exposed to other [...]

By: James F. Davis
Sentinel Columnist
The mainstream liberal media has been trying to marginalize and isolate ‘Tea Party’ groups as hateful violent people.  By mainstream liberal media, I am referring to ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and [...]

United Community Bank sold 1.373 acres, Unit 1A (Sweetwater Heights) in Sweetwater Township to Southern Multicapital Corp. for $10,000 on March 30, 2010.
Brock & Scott PLLC-TR and Christopher Dwayne Chappell II & Teresa Charlotte Chappell sold property to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP for $ 101,500 on March 31, 2010.
Katie P & Harry T Gilbert [...]

NEW Monthly EVENT TO FEATURE AUTHORS, oPEN MIC

HIAWASSEE – April 1, 2010 – Come hear local authors read at the new Writers’ Night Out
at Mountain Perk Coffee House in Hiawassee, GA. The monthly event begins April 9 and will take place the second Friday of each month from 7 p.m. to 8:30 [...]

Brenda Kay Ledford
Brenda Kay Ledford is a native of Clay County, NC.  She earned her Master of Arts in Education from Western Carolina University.  She studied Journalism at the University of Tennessee and was creative writing editor of “Tri-County Communicator.”
Ledford is a member of North Carolina Writers’ Network, North Carolina Poetry Society, Byron Herbert Reece Society, [...]

My name is Bullseye and I am currently at the Castaway Critter Animal
Shelter waiting for adoption.  I have lots of friends here (including cats)
and we are being well taken care of by two part-time employees and very
compassionate volunteers.
Castaways not only opens their doors to puppies like me but for animals with
special needs.  Sometimes, because of [...]

A group of five teenagers and three adults represented the John Campbell Folk School at the 74th Annual Mountain Folk Festival in Berea, KY on March 19-20.
The MOUNTAIN FOLK FESTIVAL whose participants are from 10-19 years old is a gathering of young folk dancers.  Started as part of the outreach programs of Berea College, the [...]