The Brunswick PorchFest committee would like to thank the people who made the 2019 PorchFest a huge success.

As I crossed the Torras Causeway Nov. 14, sea water reached close to the sidewalks. It was only a high tide — no tropical storms, hurricanes or strong winds, but it’s quite possible in the near future a mild storm can block access to and from the mainland.

Let me see if I understand this: We, some 17,000 homestead exemptioners, have won a class action suit against our county and board of education, for overcharging us on property taxes over some past years. The amount our county government has to pay is $17.5 million.

PorchFest this past Sunday was wonderful. Historic Downtown Brunswick was alive with music and activity at this unique, free event.

Everyday, there is a traffic jam leaving St. Simons Island to get onto Glynn Avenue northbound. The backup occurs when trying to turn right onto Glynn.

For years, a docile public offered no objections to the left’s radical social changes. With little or no resistance, the elite’s ill-advised and coerced cultural modifications became more extreme, until the left now promotes such things as same-sex marriage, gender identity change; sex reass…

Felton Hudson’s recent lament that Trump fights despite impediments would make a lot more sense if Republicans didn’t have control of the Presidency and both Houses of Congress for the first two years of his term.

We provide physician and medical care to the diseased and injured in order to insure that their disability does not have a negative effect on the rest of the community. Physician services are not a benefit to the recipients. Even the providers do not get benefits, only fair compensation.

This is the first time I have written to the editor with the hopes of being able to tell my story to inspire others and change the perception of many.

Approximately one year ago, I wrote the following Letter to the Editor. The motel is still there welcoming people to our area. Just wondering how long it is going to take for something to be done about this matter.

Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz, a Prussian General from yesterday, stressed that military plans often went unaccomplished due to friction of the warring opposition. In today’s world, this theory applies to American politics as well.

Delta is expanding service to the Brunswick Airport. Wonderful, love the nice terminal and no parking fees.

A recent letter in the Brunswick News noted that in 1835, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville predicted “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.”

When handed lemons make lemonade. Put lights on the Golden Ray for Christmas.

As American history has gone alongside were U.S. Marines in every clime and place. Men and women from big cities, middle America farms, beach towns, northwest timber country, western ranches and Native American reservations.

Thank you Brunswick.

Shortly before the trial of the Kings Bay 7 started, Judge Wood ruled that the RFRA could not be raised by the defense.

It is very sad to see the current state of our democracy.

For the past 18 years, I have been a native to Glynn County and have seen it grow over time. There has been one thing I have noticed, and that is our downtown area in Brunswick. I feel it has made some little strides in the past decade but nowhere close to the potential it has.

Retired General Barry McCaffrey has recently labeled President Trump as “Mussolini” after he ordered the federal government to terminate subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post. Let’s be clear about this — Mussolini would have shut the papers down and likely shot the editors.

I feel that the new roundabout on the East Beach Causeway is a gross misallocation of our resources.

Fortunately our Brunswick harbor has suffered minimal damage from oil leaking from the capsized freighter still sitting on its side in the sound. The good folks with the Unified Command have rightfully devoted enormous effort aimed at keeping that environmental damage as minimal as possible.…

Much has been made about the rising stock market under Donald Trump. True, the S&P 500 index has moved from about 2271 to 3023 from Jan. 21, 2017, to Oct. 26, 2019; an increase of some 33 percent during Trump’s first 33 months in office.

Mr. Fischer’s recent letter stated he couldn’t understand, even after studying history and politics for 40+ years, why Trump enjoys solid support, especially, according to him, since Trump has not delivered on his campaign promises. I would think a student as astute as Mr. Fischer would know…

Three years ago, we (two retired St. Simons Island film guys George Crain and myself) began production on what we called “the charm video.” The goal was simple but challenging; to elicit pride in our island while framing the questions we all have about growth, traffic, infrastructure and how…

We have all heard ad nauseam from several probably well-intentioned folks in this column that some readers are baffled by support for President Trump. It is sad but crystal clear that civics is the one course they needed desperately considering the fact that the American voter decided the is…

Thursday, Oct. 24, an overflow crowd of around 500 people attended a big screen showing of Lance Lipman and George Crain’s movie, St. Simons: Surviving Success. I was impressed with how many attended, even though this was held in the middle of the workday. More so that the auditorium was fil…

Thank you for the good advice in your Oct. 28 editorial regarding the projected cost of a new animal shelter at more than twice the amount set aside in SPLOST 2016: “Until the county can get a definite and stable cost for the project . . . it needs to pump the brakes on the project.”

No one debates the need for a safe, secure and welcoming animal shelter.