continued from page ing itself with mail-in ballots. It still hadn’t counted a third of its ballots after Election Day in 2020, and kept counting for weeks. This year, ballots arriving up to a week after the election will be considered valid. A Democratic assemblyman told the AP that the state doesn’t need to please “a society that wants immediate gratification,” as if there’s som...

continued from page Yet, with all of my disgust and animosity toward the fall time shift, there is an upside. The extra few minutes of sunlight in the mornings do help wake me up, and that’s a good thing. It helps me rise and shine — or try to shine. Look, I understand the reasons and rationale for this whole “Daylight Saving Time” foolishness. But in an age when we have smartpho...

Ms. Sylvia Rogers Norris, age 82, of Soperton, died on Thursday, October 31, 2024, at the Treutlen County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Soperton. Ms. Norris was born in Dublin, grew up in Treutlen County, and was a 1960 graduate of Soperton High School. She attended trade school in Dublin for a short time while working in Soperton at Fowler’s Cotton Gin, Plant Telephone, and the...

Rhonda Karen Mc-Quitty, affectionately known as “RK,” age 71, of Marietta, Georgia, passed away unexpectedly at her residence on Friday, October 25, 2024, following a sudden illness. Although she was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 21, 1953, she spent her early life in Vidalia, Georgia. After graduating from Vidalia High School in 1971, she began a long and fulfilling career with Southe...