It’s that time again: I’ve gotten the county’s letter in the water bill promoting the TSPLOST (which at one time was prohibited by law) and the “Vote Yes” yard signs are on street corners now. If you are undecided or even planning to support a new road tax, consider why I am not in favor of it.
Election turmoil has wracked Georgia since the Nov. 3 election, and many have wondered what’s going on in the office of secretary of state Brad Raffensperger.
How ‘bout ‘dem Dawgs? Well, not much to howl about. The Dawgs took a beating on Saturday. But I was proud to see our main man, defensive end Malik Herring, did his part for UGA, putting pressure on future Heisman winner Joe Burrow all night. Herring ended the game with four tackles and I thi…
It appears we’re gonna have perfect weather for the Christm———er, holiday parade. Weatherman says it’ll be clear and cool, in the 50s, when the parade gets under way around 7 p.m. Towaliga Tina and I always enjoy the Chirstmas cheer and big crowds that attend our little parade. Nothing says …
Well it appears that being the Monroe County fire chief has as much job security as being a football coach. Lots of firemen complained about the now-former chief, and now Matt Perry has been shown the door just two years after he was hired. Matt was a paramedic by background and never seemed…
Well congraulations to all Monroe County employees who will get big raises again in January, just one year after they all got five percent raises. Let’s get a quick show of hands: How many of you folks in the real world of small business got back-to-back 5 percent raise? That’s what I thoug…
Well I saw Mary Persons principal Jim Finch at the bait shop this week and he confirmed that the Bulldogs will be going down to Class AAA. What does that mean? Well, in theory, it might mean we won’t have to play dem big ole schools with boys who are bigger and faster than us on the football…
Man, Towaliga Tina and I are enjoying this cooler weather, and even the rain. After the drought of September and October, it will be a while before I complain about rain again. Thank you Jesus. It would be nice if we could blame the second-half rain for our Bulldogs’ loss to West Laurens on …
Towaliga Tina and I took the El Camino up to that fancy private school on Friday to see the Bulldogs play. Had no idea we’d have to do it again on Saturday! Would you believe that stadium at The Lovett School (them fancy schools have titles like that) is on the banks of the Chattahoochee Riv…
Would El Tejado Mexican Restaurant or even the finally-under-way Zaxby’s have to find new locations whenever the DOT gets around to building those promised truck-only lanes on I-75 north? That’s the scuttlebutt around town. My insider Zaxby’s buddy, let’s call him Chicken Man, points out tha…
Is it basketball season yet? Just kidding! Dang, every one of you knew we only had five starters coming back from last year’s Bulldog football team. Then we lose to Gainesville in the season opener on Friday and y’all act like Mary Persons football has gone the way of Georgia Tech. There’a a…
Well Towaliga Tina and I are headed to Gainesville on Friday to see how the Bullpups do. That’s right Bullpups. We’ll have a lot of young ‘uns on that field. Coach Nelson said them Gainesville boys will be a lot bigger than us. Hopefully our speed will overcome that. Did you know that Friday…
Well you’ve got to hand it to the Monroe County big wigs. They waited until the hottest week of the year to announce that they had landed a new industry (see the front page), a refrigerated warehouse. I don’t know about you, but who’s gonna oppose a refrigerated warehouse in Monroe County wh…
Well y’all see what happened. Last week this newspaper reminded Mary Persons students that they have to wear shoes in school this year because, as we always say, this isn’t Butts County. A few days later, Butts County dumps 10,000 gallons of sewage in the Towaliga River right before it flows…
Well, Forsyth, it’s official: Zaxby’s is coming to town. My sources, and they’re never wrong, tell me the chicken chain closed on its property last week next to the new convenience store, Papa John’s, Moe’s, Huddle House mega-plex on Hwy. 83 at I-75. Guess we’ll finally catch up with Jackson…
Towaliga Tina and I are excited that Suzy Bogguss is coming back to Forsyth this weekend. When she was at the top of the country charts, now that’s when country was Real Country, not this Bro Country balderdash you hear on the “pop” stations today. Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard would die…
Well shootfire, we had nary a drop of rain in a scorching hot May, and then here comes June with four straight days of rain. And tonight we’re supposed to get down around 55 degrees. Seems like Mother Nature is off her meds. Speaking of things we can’t control, the state of Georgia has ORDER…
Editor’s note: Stuart D. Kent, a nurse at Monroe County Hospital, wrote this tribute to his friend and co-worker Nancy Skinner, who died in an auto accident on High Falls Road on April 27.
After the wettest year in decades we’ve come upon a dry spell, and our ole Towaliga River is looking more like a creek. The good news is the dry weather makes it easy for Towaliga Tina and I to plant our tomatoes. But they’ll need rain shortly lest we wind up with a sorry crop like last year…
Well I saw where the high sheriff and his boys rounded up the high drivers making their way down I-75. Let’s see -- 38 drivers arrested in nine hours. By my Monroe County math, that’s about five arrests per hour! I guess if we’re gonna be arresting folk and raking in fine money, it might as …
Holy cow I ain’t seen such a crowd since Wrestle-Mania came to the Macon Coliseum back in the 1980s. Jackson Street was wall to wall with folks on Saturday for the Forsythia Festival and Towaliga Tina was real upset about the lines for the food vendors. It took her an hour to get a Blooming …
I’m madder than Hillary Clinton in a dry county after the city said it’s gonna hold on to the old city hall annex rather than selling it. City says it’s gonna use it as an “event venue”. Now the city did the right thing with the adjacent city hall building, selling it to Scoops for a new ice…
Well all us aging Baby Boomers of Monroe County will be rocking it out to The Lettermen at the Fine Arts Center on Friday night. I saw in Diane Glidewell’s story on the front page that the lead singer hopes the good-time love-song music will make everyone want to go home and “make out” on th…
Monroe County commissioners are looking to give themselves a 50 percent pay raise, from about $10,000 to $15,000 per year, a move some might call self-serving.
Just in case you didn’t get a chance to eat off paper plates, use plastic dinner ware and dance the night away, the Forsyth-Monroe County Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting/banquet at the Monroe County Conference Center last Friday night. A couple of highlights included the moving u…
Have you noticed? I have. And my friends have too. Gas prices in Monroe County, long the scourge of our community, known to stay 15-20 cents higher than prices in Macon, have suddenly become lower and just a hair more than Macon prices. GasBuddy.com says the Exxon at 283 N. Lee Street has th…
Well, I got me some nuze to announce this week....ole Towaliga Tom done opened hisself an auto shop next to the railroad tracks in town. Gonna call it Towaliga Towing Etc....specializing in shocks, tires and anything else that jerks loose from crossing the railroad tracks in Forsyth, Ga. I s…
I’ve got two tickets for sale to this Wednesday’s Class AAAA state championship game in The BMW Bowl, or whatever they call that fancy stadium with the faulty sunroof in At-lanner. I was convinced -- you were too! -- that our Bulldogs would be playing there. Instead we’ve got the high-dollar…
Dadgumit. Have you ever seen our two favorite football teams, the Bulldogs in Forsyth and in Athens, dominate so much simultaneously and then suffer heart-breaking losses within 8 days? Boo! People say the Atlanta United soccer team is gonna help break the “Georgia Sports Jinx” when they pla…
Well Norfolk Southern railroad was kind enough to stop traffic all day in Forsyth on Monday to make “improvements” to the main rail crossing in town at the top of Hamburger Hill, aka Lee Street. All the local tire and alignment shops thank the railroad for its effort to increase their busine…
I’m madder than Paul Johnson at a passing camp after finding out how much our state playoff opponents are “paying” players. Well they don’t technically pay them, we don’t think. But think about this here: Last week’s loser, Woodward Academy, costs $27,000 per year. This week’s loser, Marist?…
I’m cleanin’ my deer rifle because weatherman says it’s gonna be wet and cold later this week, and cold and clear over the weekend. Yessir, I believe ole Mr. Buck is gonna be visiting Towaliga Tom on Saturday! I’ve found that it’s always more fun to hunt after spreading a big bag of deer cor…
Well we finally got some fall weather, but it took a hurricane to do it and it lasted about two days. Now it’s back to 85 degrees. But the weather guy said it’s going to get cool again later this week, about the time you get this Reporter here. Sounds good to me. Towaliga Tina and I were so …
A lot of people are jumping up and down this week about a boy at Mary Persons High School who had a gun at school. My, how times change. When I was just a young feller, every boy at school had a weapon on the gun rack in the back of the cab of his pickup truck. If you wanted to hunt before s…
Well I’m so glad that a blazing hot September has given way to a blazing hot October. Someone wake me up when fall gets here because I am madder than Christine Blasey Ford at a frat party about this hot weather that won’t quit. Speaking of waiting on things, did you hear that the railroad fo…
Well it’s only September, and this sheriff’s race is already exhausting. When I’m in the yard and see one candidate coming down the road, I have to call Towaliga Tina and tell her to hurry up and put their sign in the yard. As soon as he’s gone, another candidate comes down the road and we h…
A few years ago the popular thought among some people was that computers could be the antichrist that would come upon the world scene very soon. “But the Bible tells us, “His number is 666, “’, I argued. “It doesn’t say, “Its number is 666, “’How ridiculous to think such a thought that a com…
Whenever I have to cover an auto accident on I-75, not uncommon here in Monroe County, I try not to stay long. There are few places in the U.S. where you can feel more vulnerable than being unprotected on an interstate highway.
Well, the truth is out. I’ve been nailed. Busted. My cover is blown. A few local politicians have been waving the incriminating evidence against me around town.
We’re relieved to hear that Bryant’s Collision in Forsyth was able to re-open on Monday after a morning blaze damage part of their facility.
The headline read: “Newspapers to be dead within five years.”
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