Category: Editorials

I’ve worked here at the local newspaper office for four years, having started in May of 2021. In that time, I have won a total of 12 awards through the Florida Press…

I grew up in Tallahassee and was blessed to attend SAIL, one of the best high schools there. I won’t go into detail, but I credit the school for saving my life…

The world can be really noisy, and it can be tempting to stay silent in an attempt to not add to all the racket. I have found, however, that often the loudest…

I’ve lived in Monticello my whole life, and I always remember it being pretty quiet. Over the past few years, though, I feel like something’s changed. It’s not a bad change, either. …

As strange as it seems, I have made yet another revolution around our sun, making me 33 years old. Time seems to go simultaneously too quickly and painfully slow, as if I…

Hailey Heseltine  ECB Publishing, Inc.  The Jefferson County R.J. Bailar Library (375 S. Water St.) is kicking off its summer reading program with a party today, May 30, at 1 p.m. This…

The world can be an increasingly dark place, it seems. When the pandemic struck our little planet, five years ago, I felt a sinking sensation of dread as the world as we…

Thank you to all who have prayed for Hunter and helped us through this difficult time. We have experienced so much love showered over us between GoFundMe, fundraisers and personally helping us…

Celebrating a Legacy of Love, Laughter, and Learning at Our Blessings Early Learning Center Twenty years ago, God planted a seed in the heart of a young woman named Shameka Geathers—better known…

On May 8, I graduated summa cum laude from North Florida College with an Associate of Arts. My time at NFC was brief but breezy.  NFC is a true example of a…

This past weekend, I was scheduled to showcase my art as a vendor at the Suwannee County Wildflower Festival. I signed up months ago, and have spent these few weeks steadily building…

Heather Ainsley  ECB Publishing, Inc. Last Monday, I took Ali-cat to the vet. She had been throwing up a lot, including once where her emesis contained blood. Additionally, she was decidedly not…

Around three and a half years ago, an elderly, thin, feral cat approached me as I was eating lunch outside the newspaper office, and she captured a piece of me. For two…

There’s a lot of things we take for granted. Wonderful people, places, experiences and opportunities we have and love can start feeling like just an routine part of life when we engage…

When someone passes away, it is common to re-live the final moments you spent with them, mulling them over in your mind until every moment is immortalized forever, as if preserving the…

The other day, I was changing in my room when I spied a little thief at the bird feeder I keep on the balcony. I say thief in loose terms, only because…

As I have made more and more trips around that big yellow bag of gas in the sky, I have come to realize that the only thing you can truly predict about…

Sometimes I wonder if the sentimental part of me is perennial, because it always seems to come back to life around the time the flowers start blooming. This year, the rush of…