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William “Wild Bill” Tate came to the University of Georgia from a farm near Fairmount Georgia in the fall of 1920. He was a long-distance runner on the Georgia track team, and following …
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Charles Schwabe
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5/8/24
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I am doing something I rarely, if ever, have done. I am going to rerun a previous column verbatim. Hans Trupp, of St. Simons, died last week. I wrote the following about him two years ago and I ask …
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Dick Yarbrough
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5/8/24
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Say it ain’t so!
After reading Charles Schwabe’s column, the recent talk of a possible move for the city hall has me very concerned. I no longer live there, but still claim Swainsboro as my …
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5/7/24
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There is a lot of conversation around town this week concerning the future of Swainsboro City Hall, or more precisely, the future of the building that houses City Hall. It appears that Mayor and city …
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Charles Schwabe
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5/1/24
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When my weekly Blade arrives, I always check the obituaries. Often, I see a name that brings back many memories. I recognized the picture of ninety-one-year-old Melvin McDaniel before reading about …
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Shirley Twiss
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5/1/24
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When the telephone rings, you know it is Skeeter Skates. It doesn’t just ring, it jumps up and down. Skeeter can do that to a phone. And to people, too.
In case you are new to this space, …
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Dick Yarbrough
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5/1/24
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Dear Samuel Knox Wansley:
Welcome! You are my seventh great-grandchild and the fourth male in my growing family tree. However, I suspect that is of little importance to you at this point. I have …
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Dick Yarbrough
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4/24/24
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At this time of year, my thoughts often drift back to my mixed emotions about the end of my school days at SHS. This was a difficult time for me because I had also lost my father. Was I ready for my …
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Shirley Twiss
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4/24/24
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What would your answer be if someone asked you to name the greatest resource we have here in Emanuel County? Would you say it’s the thousands of acres of beautiful, green, marketable forests, or …
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Charles Schwabe
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4/24/24
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This past week, thousands of people from all around the world, spent millions and millions of dollars to make the pilgrimage to Augusta to kneel at the holy grail of golf, eighteen holes of heaven, …
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Charles Schwabe
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4/17/24
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As of this writing, the opportunity to express your opinion to Georgia’s Environmental Protec-tion Division about their decision to issue draft permits for Alabama-based Twin Pines Miner-als to …
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Dick Yarbrough
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4/17/24
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We came as total strangers. Local folks had no idea of our background, education, or finan-cial status. They went out of their way to welcome us to town. The “money pit” we had pur-chased at …
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LaRose Tapley
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4/17/24
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They say how glorious Heaven is going to be, streets paved with pure gold, and walls of Jasper adorned with precious stones are just a few things that will be pleasing to our earthly eyes. Spiritual …
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Ronnie Johnson
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4/10/24
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It may seem completely unrelatable for most of the younger crowd, but way back in the day, there was a popular TV commercial that claimed Chiffon margarine was so good and buttery, it could even fool …
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Charles Schwabe
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4/10/24
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Let’s face it. We’re a blessed people. Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships and 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s …
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Dick Yarbrough
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4/10/24
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In 1973, I was convinced by two friends from college that the three of us needed to have a deeper and more personal understanding of what our homeland was all about. It is a big country, after all, …
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4/3/24
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My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world. He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business. One of his precepts was that we have an …
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4/3/24
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Writing this article for The Blade touches my heart in many ways. Mrs. Mae Vann was my Sunday School teacher in the high school class at the Swainsboro First Methodist Church. She gave me the faith …
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4/3/24
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There is a lot going on at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. Not all the news has been good. There was the tragedy last year when an athletic department staffer and a member of the football …
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Dick Yarbrough
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3/27/24
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Each year I remember and cherish the beauty, joy, love, and hope of Easter Sundays. Baskets, hunting eggs, decorating hard- boiled eggs, a new spring dress made by my grandmother and shoes to match …
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Shirley Twiss
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3/27/24
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