Best advice for individuals deathly afraid of contracting COVID-19: shelter in place. Stay home. At the very least, limit beyond the threshold ventures to absolute necessary destinations — like the grocery store, for instance.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things about our daily lives, but there are some things that never change. While the majority of us are doing what we can to adapt to the changing situation, there are others who are out to prey upon the vulnerable for a quick buck.

We associate a lot of things with August — stifling heat, going back to school, football season gearing up. We already have one of those things while the other two are hopefully on their way, though a lot of that will depend on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Can 123 health care professionals at Southeast Georgia Health System be wrong? We don’t think so, which is why we urge the Glynn County Board of Education and School Superintendent Scott Spence to reconsider their position on masks.

We as a country owe a lot to the men and women who have laid their lives on the line to defend our country. Even when we were just a fledgling group of loosely associated states, citizens rose to the challenge to fight for our freedom.

Rising generations will always question the actions of those before them. It’s both good and bad that they do. Good because lessons learned serve as excellent fodder for changing the world for the better; bad because the lecturers, older generations, suddenly find themselves in the reverse r…

All of us know the story about the boy who cried wolf. The shepherd boy’s reckless use of pointing out danger when there was none eventually led to nobody responding to his pleas when danger did arrive. While there is an important lesson about false alarms in this story, there is also a good…

Tell an individual a certain action could endanger life, even his own, and there might be a 50-50 chance of compliance. Tell that same individual the action could lead to a hefty fine and the likelihood of compliance will improve significantly.

Tropical Storm Isaias is thankfully not as strong as some of the storms that have come through the Golden Isles in recent years. But don’t let the fact that this storm isn’t a hurricane lull you into a false sense of security.

Keep your guard up, and watch Hurricane Isaias closely over the weekend. And while you’re at it, take careful notice of the Atlantic storms trailing behind it that are headed in this general direction from the western coast of Africa.

It’s hard to imagine just how traumatic an experience it is to have to be taken out of the only home you have ever known. Unfortunately, it has been the fate of 14,605 children that are in the care of the state Division of Family and Children Services.

Some parents may be waffling on what to do when schools reopen in August. A good number of moms and dads are torn, and with just cause. COVID-19 is nothing to mess around with. It’s that contagious and that dangerous.

The idea of bringing a conference center to downtown Brunswick has percolated since a SPLOST to raise funds for the project passed back in 2001. Progress seemed to be moving forward after Rimrock Developers was chosen to build a hotel that would be adjacent to the center. The size of the pro…

This nation has more pressing issues to contend with than what might have happened 100 years or more ago. COVID-19 appears to be on the upswing; millions of Americans are on the brink of homelessness; and human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

Patience is a virtue, and one that is quite necessary in our current times. A pandemic has a way of making you slow down, especially when you are trying to follow social distancing guidelines. The people who were hoping the Golden Ray would soon be gone from our vista will also have to be mo…

Now that Judge Stephen Scarlett, chief judge of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, has made his ruling in the Dennis Perry case, we feel free to comment on the disturbing tack taken by the prosecutor. The circuit’s District Attorney’s Office ripped away the blindfold of Lady Justice and if that…

There have been some pretty dour predictions for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Colorado State University is projecting 20 named storms in 2020 with nine of them becoming hurricanes and four of those nine reaching major hurricane status.

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court all but did away with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Because the law had outlived its usefulness, Congress sat idly by and allowed what remained of it to simply blow away. It was no longer necessary in 21st century America.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect everyone’s life, it has not stopped the regular demands on our medical infrastructure. One of the reasons why it is important for the community to contain the virus is to prevent our hospitals from being pushed to capacity by virus patients on …

Acting Glynn County Police Chief Jay Wiggins announced recently that he is reducing the number of hours county police officers are scheduled to report for duty each day. Right now, the department functions on 12-hour shifts. Wiggins is trimming it by two hours, setting the new workday at 10 hours.

Members of the Brunswick-Glynn County Water and Sewer Commission are in an expansion mood. They would like to extend services to areas like Arco. They have their hearts set on it.

Parking is a universal issue that every municipality deals with at some point. Debates usually revolve around whether there is enough parking for a location to how much, if anything, people should pay to park. The latter has come up this week in regards to beach parking fees for St. Simons Island.

For the record, let us be perfectly clear. We support police — city, county, state and federal. They are all that stand between a civilized, free society and utter chaos.

American pop culture has a habit of holding vigilantes in high esteem. Whether it is a superhero such as Batman or the many, many movies that feature people out for revenge, the lone wolf stereotype of one man working against the system to save innocent people appeals to many of us — at leas…

The Glynn County Board of Education is facing a mountain-sized task. It and Georgia’s 180 other public school systems must plan out how to maintain a safe environment for students, teachers and the system’s employees when school reopens in August.

When people say they hate politics, what they really mean is they hate the games that politicians play while citizens in need go without. One would hope that a global pandemic could be a unifying force that pulls everyone together for the common good, but that is apparently asking for too mu…

The Glynn County Police Department might as well face this sullen fact: suspicion will continue to surround the department’s ability to investigate serious crime like an omnipresent stench in the weeks, months and years ahead. It will until the department provides a satisfactory explanation …

It’s happening several weeks after originally scheduled, but the seniors at Brunswick High and Glynn Academy are finally getting their chance to hold their graduation ceremonies this week. Glynn Academy held its ceremony Thursday with Brunswick High’s taking place this morning.

”Fear in the air, tension everywhere