VALDOSTA —
You can now go to the home page of our website (www.valdostadailytimes.com) and click on the link for our digital e-edition. You can sign up for a seven-day trial or, if you currently subscribe to the print edition, we will be glad to add the e-edition just by calling our office for details.
What’s different about the e-edition?
— You can read The Times from your computer or smart phone from wherever you are.
— You can opt to get a notification e-mail when the current edition is available online.
— All stories and advertisements with links to websites or e-mail addresses are linkable from within your online edition.
— Stories are easily enlarged to the size you need.
— You can set up ‘monitors’ to receive e-mails when certain names, events, etc., are published in The Times.
— You can buy single copies or have options to several other types of longer-term subscriptions.
— As a subscriber you will have archived copies available for 30 days. Older copies can be purchased for 75 cents each.
— By sliding the computer mouse down the contents link to the e-edition, you will see, by page, a list of the stories allowing you to move directly to the story.
— You will have access to all special sections to the print edition but you will not get the advertising circulars (Belk, JCPenney, Best Buy, etc.) as online distribution is controlled by the advertiser.
— And, as an e-edition subscriber you can post comments to the stories in the paper. Your comment will appear in the comment section under the story of every e-edition subscriber’s copy.
We are interested in what you think. Take a trial run and let me know about your e-edition experience. E-mail me at ssanders@cnhi.com.
Newspaper endorsements? Most newspapers are opting out of the endorsement business. One of our reasons for considering no endorsements is due to the advance-voting schedule of six-weeks out from the General Election day. Today you have several pages in our paper with candidate and election information. There should be enough there for you to make an informed decision in your voting.
As with the new e-edition, I would like to hear your thoughts about endorsements. Do you feel they are helpful to you in making decisions? If you want us to endorse, do you want state only; local only; or both? E-mail me at ssanders@cnhi.com.
Sandy Sanders
VDT ready with all-new digital edition
- Sandy Sanders
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Think before you answer
I got an email this week where a writer of an online column tells the story of a young child in Sunday School. The writer says the little boy’s teacher asked his class ‘What’s the animal with a long, bushy tail that lives in trees?’ One child quickly answers while probably thinking about the usual answer to questions in his church Sunday School, ‘Jesus. Though it sure sounds like a squirrel to me.’
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Forgiveness, redemption go together
The news story on Friday read: “WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to censure once-powerful New York Rep. Charles Rangel for multiple ethical misdeeds — the first time in nearly three decades that House members have publicly rebuked a colleague.
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South Georgia roots run deep for these execs
David Ratcliffe and Mike Garrett, two highly respected executives with Valdosta and South Georgia ties, will be stepping down as leaders of two of the largest power companies in the nation by yearend.
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VDT ready with all-new digital edition
You can now go to the home page of our website (www.valdostadailytimes.com) and click on the link for our digital e-edition. You can sign up for a seven-day trial or, if you currently subscribe to the print edition, we will be glad to add the e-edition just by calling our office for details.
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We are losing our children and we are blaming ‘others’
Extinction! There are public outcries to save animals, bugs and reptiles while our own children are being lost to a new world order. In the past two weeks, I have seen two students, one high school, one middle school, with their parents blessing bring to the public area all the details of their student-teacher antics. Each student had been suspended from school and one was making his way to court.
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Do we want tax or football braggin’ rights?
A drop in our property digest seems evident and to maintain we will need a tax increase. We can recruit higher-paying jobs to the county and get more taxes that way but is that practical thinking for a quick adjustment in this economy?
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Blazer Zone moving into Drexel Park
Next Saturday, Blazer fan families will have a great opportunity for some pre-game tailgating fun. The university is turning Drexel Park into a mini carnival so families can spread out to enjoy an afternoon under the trees, as they get ready for the Blazers’ season opener.
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Maggots with your steak
Today, with online journalism on newspaper websites, readers are able to go online, read the story, post a comment and, within minutes, their comment (thread) is answered by another reader. The bantering can follow a positive line or it can quickly move to having all the attributes of a barroom brawl.
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Why do some children live in abusive houses?
As I have written many times in this column, I grew up in a small town. My father worked at Moody Air Force Base for 30 years and as he would recollect while laughing, “I ate a fried egg sandwich for lunch every day of those 30 years.”
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Turning 18 before the election board
When I turned 18 my father took me down to the courthouse one evening to go before the Board of Registrars so I could be qualified to vote. I was called into the room before three men. I remember being nervous. They asked me questions about residency and being an American before I was given their stamp of approval.
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Think before you answer
