I would love to spend time with my family at the Langdale Park and see the new trails, but it is not exactly a family oriented park now is it?
There are many homes, facilities in the area to help women overcome addiction and get their life on track, yet none for men unless you want to count prison.
I just read Coach Tomberlin's comments on Friday night's game. As both a LHS and VHS fan (when they aren't playing Lowndes), I am impressed with his leadership skills in the face of adversity from his employers. Surely it isn't easy to coach a team that knows their leader is on the way out. VBOE and Valdosta Touchdown Club need to seriously rethink their knee-jerk reaction to the Lowndes/Valdosta game.
You think the Lowndes Web sites are bad, you should see the city's teacher Web sites. There is never any information posted, much less updates. Everything reads, "under construction"— I know for a fact that many, if not all, county school teachers have to update their Web sites. Does the city even require their teachers to update theirs?
In response to the thumbs down about Department of Corrections: There's a lot the public hasn't been told. Like just how short staffed these facilities are run. Even shorter with furloughs. This isn't like a school where another person can fill in. There is just one more person not there but the inmates still are.
At last year’s VSU playoff game a little over 3,000 people attended, many of them students that got in free. This year VSU flew to Arkansas and then rented a fleet of buses to take them to the stadium. Extracurricular activities like football are supposed to be self supporting. The students at VSU currently pay the highest fees of any school in the state and we still can't get many of the classes we need. Please don't ask us to pay for a football stadium. Let all of the fans and former players pay for it. It’s a hobby.
I think the Valdosta football booster club is looking pretty dumb right now. Great job Coach T, keep it up, win state and rub it in all their faces.
I'm not surprised by what happened to correctional officer Hankerson. The prisons are always short staffed and the employee turnover is extremely high. Buildings require two floor officers. Most buildings only ever have one. Drugs and cell phones are constantly getting into the prison.
What We Think
Rant & Rave for November 5, 2009
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Elections: Creating a two-party region?
Twenty years ago, most area elections were decided during the primaries. Then, almost every candidate qualified as a Democrat. While there may be plenty of challengers on the ballot, many seats were decided in July or a few weeks later during the primary run-off.
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Thumbs up, thumbs down
THUMBS UP: To South Georgians making fine impressions on television singing competitions. Phillip Phillips of Leesburg won “American Idol” this week. Meanwhile, Lowndes High School graduate Stacia Watkins participated in the new ABC show “Duets.” Well done!
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Farewell to the vanishing ace
Donald S. “Bush” Bryan was not only a rare individual. He was part of a vanishing breed.
An Adel resident for the past 30 years, Bryan was a World War II flying ace. Not just an ace but a double ace. A pilot must down five enemy aircraft to become an ace; Bryan downed 13.3 enemy planes in Europe. The fractions represent planes downed with other pilots. -
A widespread mosquito alert
In announcing the discovery of a mosquito carrying the West Nile Virus strain, city and health officials did not include the specific location of the discovery.
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Of Guantanamo Bay and a Founding Father
Some readers may wonder how a Valdosta High School graduate could bring himself as an attorney to represent a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Congratulations, VSU Softball!
This weekend, Valdosta State University Blazers Softball became the latest team to add to Valdosta’s TitleTown legacy.
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School’s out so watch out!
Summer is a time of rest, vacations and trips. It is a time when school is out, when people take time off from work, when people may stay out a little later. It is a time of swimming, trying new things, and seeking adventure.
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Qualifiers are next leaders
While the national media focuses attention on the presidential election, it should be remembered that we will also choose our local leaders this year.
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Thumbs up
THUMBS UP: To the 2011-12 arts season. Theatre Guild Valdosta’s rollicking comedy, “Caught in the Net,” officially brings to a close a magnificent schedule of shows ranging from theatre to opera to concerts to art exhibits and more from a variety of area venues. Theatre Guild will also open the 2012-13 season this summer with the musical “Into the Woods.” Until then, arts lovers can soon enjoy a new series of exhibits from the year-round Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts and three musicals starting in two weeks from Peach State Summer Theatre.
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Events that get things done
Finding something that repeatedly attracts the public is difficult enough, but finding an event that accomplishes that feat while also promoting your organization and helping others … well, in many places, that’s a rarity.
Not so for the Valdosta area. - More What We Think Headlines
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Elections: Creating a two-party region?
