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Opinion

Seat belts — do you always wear them? You should.

Columns

Nearly half of the people killed on U.S. roads in 2023 were not wearing seat belts. That year, 17,872 vehicles in fatal crashes involved unbelted occupants, according to a new analysis from Pegasus Legal Capital, LLC, a legal funding company in Florida that provides competitive, low-risk cash ...

Wishing you a sweet Epiphany

Columns

Epiphany concludes the Christmas holiday season. Also known as the Twelfth Day of Christmas, this day commemorates the day the Three Kings from the East arrived in Bethlehem, bearing their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Most European countries have traditional sweets for Epiphany. ...

Help us chronicle your lives in 2026

Columns

As we turn the page on yet another year evanescing here in the Tri-Lakes, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a heartfelt thank-you to our subscribers, as well as the local advertisers who allow us to continue publishing this community newspaper. Without you, this storied ...

Two outs and no bench

Letters to the editor

To the editor: During a recent “60 Minutes” television interview, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been critical of Trump for not focusing on domestic issues, stated: “I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks ... to when ...

What kind of leader do we need?

Letters to the editor

To the editor: The atmosphere at village board meetings reflects the quality of leadership guiding them. When leadership unites, collaboration emerges. When it divides, momentum collapses. Think about pushing a child on a swing. To add energy, you must be in sync with the swing’s ...

Joe Drutz — WWII POW and civic leader

Columns

The headline on page one of an Enterprise in February 1973 prompted the editor at that time to have Joe Drutz write a story about his experience as a POW. Pretty cool, don’t you think? So, let’s get right to it. “It gives me a funny feeling to hear and read about operation ...