Every six months or so, folks on St. Simons Island get all upset about some action the Glynn County Board of Commissioners and their staffs have taken regarding island development. Today it is turn circles. A few months ago, it was the entrance through German Village to St. Simons Land Trust…

I was chairman of the St. Simons Land Trust (SSLT) when the board made the decision to borrow the money and secure the property adjacent to Fort Frederica in order to preserve this important property from development and protect important artifacts. Little did we know the National Park Servi…

The intent of this letter is to petition the new owners of the Pier Village Market (PVM) to consider allowing the 15 small businesses to continue operations through September 2020. My husband and I opened Golden Isles Bracelet Co. in 2006 in the PVM. We have created a well-known destination …

Referencing The News’ headline of Sept. 11, 2019, concerning the fate of the Glynn County Police Department, my 25 plus years of experience and education compel me to comment.

Instead of citing studies about how our public schools are underfunded or trying to decipher Georgia’s 1985 Quality Basic Education Act that determines public school funding or providing examples about how well-funded schools outperform charter schools, let me share two stories I heard over …

I fully agree with Dick Wiederhorn that there is absolutely no need for a roundabout at East Beach Causeway and Ocean Road. I am now questioning why I voted for the last SPLOST, and why I should vote for the next one.

Coastal Georgia, like many other areas of the country that have contaminated properties, has areas in need of remediation.

I arrived in Brunswick in late July to support the Kings Bay Plowshares for their bold, non-violent, peaceful action that pointed out the deadly, ominous existence of Trident submarines and over 1,000 nuclear weapons stored at the Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Marys, Georgia.

Everyone in the maritime world, including all of America, watched the improbable happen in St. Simons Sound when the 660-foot Golden Ray flipped on her side early Sunday morning.

I still wonder why the city continues to push the footbridge access to Glynn Middle School for students who must walk, especially with the latest heightened security issues. Even though the majority of students use Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a handful of students continue to walk Lani…

A big shoutout to all the people in Glynn County who have responded so quickly to help the crew of the capsized freighter: The Coast Guard and port personnel, First Responders, Vicki West & the Seafarers Center, Riley Letson & her Soles4Soles nonprofit, the restaurants & motel pu…

I am amused by the alternate solutions proposed by those opposed to the roundabout now under construction at Ocean Boulevard and East Beach Causeway. No solution of any kind is needed, as there is no problem requiring a solution. There is never a traffic delay at this intersection, nor is th…

The roundabout that is being built at Ocean and East Beach Causeway is proof that St. Simons Island should be the City of St. Simons Island.

Sept. 11 is the 18th anniversary of the suicide attacks by radical Islamic terrorists on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Flight 93 — nearly 3,000 people murdered. The 9/11 tragedy was real and a turning point in U.S. history. There was a paradigm shift that day. Our lives as a freedom l…

Climate change is coming to our doorstep. We were lucky here with another close call with Hurricane Dorian. Many were not so lucky. This hurricane showed the good, bad, and ugly, when it comes to storms, the environment, and our government.

I want to voice my disapproval with the decision to construct a roundabout on East Beach Causeway and Ocean Boulevard.

I would like to congratulate Glynn County officials including the commissioners on their performance on the handling of Hurricane Dorian. Their communications through the county website, the radio and television interviews did not portray panic but a calm assurance that all was being watched…

Humble gratitude is due the decision makers, state and local, elected and corporate, who coordinated to make the difficult calls to assure our safety in the face of what appeared to be the onrushing doom and destruction of a monster hurricane.

There is a bill going before the U.S. Senate supposedly to stop robocalls. It is H.R. 3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act.

I’m compelled to comment on a recent column citing the “Tragedy of the Commons” in relation to escalating threats to the ecologically vital Amazon Forest.

It is said that “hindsight is always 20/20.” But, the editorial in Friday’s Brunswick News has conveniently left out the fact that, because there were a lot of people that did not want roundabouts, the Board of Commissioners specifically and consciously changed those descriptions that includ…

Kudos to The Brunswick News for frequently publishing positive stories, especially those about students. I almost wrote a letter after reading Wednesday’s story on Glynn Academy senior Thomas Hunter’s efforts to help the Russel-White family recover from their destroyed home. Today’s story re…

Love Trump, hate Trump, there is no middle ground. Embrace or punch the nearest MAGA hat.

It would appear to me that there are two tiers in the southeast Georgia justice system.

July was a scary month for me — feeling fine one day and so weak I could barely move the next. After two visits to the ER, I was admitted to the hospital where the real healing began.

Editor’s Note: The following letter is written as a rebuttal to a letter and therefore is not subject to the two-week policy. This will be the only rebuttal allowed.

Like Jennifer Hatcher, as another One Hundred Miles member, I too was disappointed by JIA Director Jones Hooks’ charge that OHM is leveraging the controversy over the Jekyll Island lighting ordinance to gin up donations. The temperate, measured letter I received from OHM about this matter di…

As a longtime member of One Hundred Miles and a participant in the St. Simons Island Sea Turtle Project’s free public education programs, I am disappointed by JIA Executive Director Jones Hooks’ untrue statement that One Hundred Miles is pursuing this issue for financial gain (as quoted in W…

A million dollars is a lot of money to be thrown at another roundabout when that money can be used for something good that our community needs. That is more funds for homeless shelters, and a wellness checkup center for homeless.