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» Your hometown newspaper since 1861 The Eatonton Alessenger THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 | A5 Sign of the Times Putnam Past f. 1 Photos by Gene Garcia (see more at facebook.com/theartsbarnllc The Arts Barn and Georgia Writers Museum presented their annual Haunted Eatonton walking tours over the previous two weekends. Each of six downtown destinations on the tour featured two to eight actors presenting 10- to 15-minute spooky skits based upon the location, including this one at The Eatonton Messenger's office on North Jefferson Avenue. It featured 16-year-old Avry Shorter (left) as a newsboy hawking papers outside the front door, and Kyle Krug as a newspaper editor regaling visitors with tales of crime, murder, and mayhem from a fictional, sordid past for Putnam County. Have you seen a sight that bugs you, captures your imagination or makes you wonder what's going on? Tell us about it. Send email to editor@ msgrnews.com or call 706-749-7232. Instructions for letters to the editor: Letters to the editor are due by Monday morning for that week's paper. Letters may be emailed to editor@msgrnews.com or delivered to The Eatonton Messenger, 100 N. Jefferson Ave., Eatonton, GA 31024. Letters sent anonymously will not be printed. A phone number for verification must be included; the phone number will not be published. RANDOM CONTINUED FROM >: A4 per month or over $500 annually. Speaking of Georgia Power, Comm. Johnson said he and Echols are running against Demo crats “who think it’s right for taxpayers to fund gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners (and) want control of GREENE CONTINUED FROM >: A4 day-jammies. You can go months, maybe years, without ever seeing your coworkers in the flesh. It’s kind of lonely some times and you’ll miss your friends at work. Heads up, we are gonna really hate this in the future. There’s a new emerging tech called “artificial your power bill.” Only if Georgia Power approves. Not much happens at the Public Service Commis sion without Georgia Power’s approval. Not even gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners ... In case you missed it, our commander-in-chief and leader of the free world recently posted an Al-generated video of himself wearing a crown and dropping a planeload of feces on protesters. intelligence,” or AI for short. It’s hard to explain. You can talk to it like a human. It answers with a human voice. Ask random stuff like, what was the weather on October 13, 2000, and it knows instantly. It also can write a 50-page term paper on any subject within seconds — and it’ll be perfect — or maybe not. It’ll prob ably replace millions of jobs. You might want to think about becoming an George Washington, who turned down an offer to be king and declined a third term, and Abraham Lincoln, who worked to keep our nation united instead of dividing it, have to be shaking their heads in amazement ... Finally, the above-men tioned Pew Research Center report on religion didn’t mention it, but God does love columnists. Just when I think I’ve run out of material, Republican electrician or a plumber. Not kidding. Weed is legal recreation ally in 24 states and medi cally in 38.Most major cities now smell like a Grateful Dead show, espe cially New York and LA. Sounds crazy, but I smell more weed than cigarette smoke on the streets these days. Nobody smokes ciga rettes anymore. Nobody. If someone had told me all this back in 2000, I wouldn’t have believed Senator Ted Cruz says Marjorie Taylor Greene has become a (shudder!) liberal. MTG responded: “I don’t obey Republican men’s demands that I, as a woman, remain seen but not heard,” and called Cruz and others “pathetic Republican men.” Thank you, Lord. You can reach Dick Yarbrough atdick@ |dicky arorough.comp r at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139. them either. So, buckle up, younger me. The next 25 years are going to be a wild ride full of things that seem impossible but become everyday reality. So, stay curious, stay adaptable, and for the love of Pete, buy that Apple stock today! Oh, and if you readers think I missed something important please send me an email at t@tomgreene. com. I promise that 2025 me will respond. LAST YEAR, NOV. 7, 2024 The Eatonton Fire Department hopes to provide at least 250 kids who live within Eatonton city limits with Christmas presents from the department's 15th annual Fireman Santa's Sleigh campaign. Ranging from clothes to toys to sporting equipment to even bicycles, Eatonton Fire Department Chief Jamey Williamson said he's focused on delivering the Christmas spirit to a record number of recipients in 2024. FIVE YEARS AGO, NOV. 5, 2020 County employees at the Putnam Administration building went all out to support those with breast cancer during their Pink-Out event on Thursday, Oct. 29. The group wore pink from head to toe and had a ceremony to honor custodian and breast cancer survivor, Annie Parks and remember Linda Sadler, an employee of the Finance department who lost her life to breast cancer several years ago and all others that have been diagnosed 10 YEARS AGO, NOV. 5, 2015 The counting of votes at the end of voting Tuesday for city elections produced no definite winner in the tightly contested mayor's race. The count from the City Hut, the city's polling place, after voting closed Tuesday night, showed the challenger, Walter Rocker Jr., with 746 votes and incumbent Mayor John Reid with 727. But in a complication that prevented a confirmed winner that night, 19 votes separated the two candidates, while it remained to be determined if 31 provisional ballots would count in the race. 25 YEARS AGO, NOV. 9, 2000 The Putnam County Board of Commissioners endorsed Putnam General Hospital's application for designation as a "Critical Access Hospital" at their monthly meeting last Friday. Qualifying hospitals must be under 100 beds, reduce licensed bed size to 25 (including swing beds), maintain an average length of stay of less than 96 hours and have a transfer agreement with at least one secondary or tertiary hospital, according to a letter from PGH Administrator Darrell M. Oglesby. 50 YEARS AGO, NOV. 6, 1975 Putnam County streaked by the Greene County Tigers in an important sub-region football contest Friday night by a score of 26-6. The Eagles extended their winning string to four as they defeated the Greene County team. Putnam remains undefeated in region play after three region games. 75 YEARS AGO, NOV. 9, 1950 Searching for artifacts and shards with the hope that clues might be uncovered which will bring light to the mystery of the dawn people who built the Rock Eagle mound effigy, Dr. A.R. Kelly head of the Archeological Department of the University, and formerly with the Smithsonian Institute, brought a party from Athens, to explore the area in the northern part of Putnam County in the vicinity of the lake. 100 YEARS AGO, NOV. 6, 1925 Kiwanian J.O. Wall left Monday to attend the state Kiwanis convention in Albany, Georgia. Mr. Wall attended the national Kiwanis convention at St. Paul, Minnesota, last summer, and he is recognized as one of Georgia's livest and most enthusiastic Kiwanians. Eatonton is fortunate in having such a fine representative and wide-awake delegate at the state convention. Mr. Wall is likewise fortunate in being able to report his home club as one of the livest in Georgia. 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It’s interesting to note that when the government shut down in 2013, during Obama’s reign it was over Obamacare as well. It’s been mismanaged ever since however helping millions of Americans along the way. Come on DC! Get your act together. Letdcknow.org @LetDCknow • Nonprofit organization I www.facebook.com/letDCknow| www.letdcknow.org] We call this handsome guy "Archie." If you remember the old Archie comics you might see the resemblance. Archie is around one to two years old with a medium coat, and he loves attention! He'd also love to meet you... Learn more about Archie and other great pets by calling us at 706-485-3970, or just stop by. We're in Eatonton next to the Putnam County Sheriff's Department. 118 W. Marion St* Eatonton, Ga 706-485-8573 Visit: eatontonhealth.org Eatonton Health & Rehab is a Health Service of CHSGa
