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Proper fall maintenance can be the key to a flourishing green lawn in the year ahead. These practices include irrigating, fertilizing, controlling weeds and soil testing.

Parents and community leaders expect schools to emphasize teaching the basic skills: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But parents also need to work with children on another basic skill: how to study.

One of the many important things a child will learn is how to read and understand what he reads. Good reading skills are needed every day for all kinds of activities.

Last year when the fires were raging across the dry forests of the northwestern United States, a firefighter named David Long was vacationing in the state of Washington.

The ending of the parable of the Good Samaritan often is not included when taught or preached. The point of the story is beautifully emphasized regarding the active compassion of the man of Samaria. He cleaned and dressed the beaten man's wounds, took

The modest and well-known statement contained in the Hippocratic oath has always stood out to me. This pledge for all physicians includes the simple declaration,

Landscaping accounts for 20 to 50% of all residential water use and provides the best opportunity for water conservation in the home.

I will admit some bias in what I am fixing to say, but I think the announcement the other day that the Northeast Georgia History Center is seriously expanding its activities is important for all of us in this region.

The University of Georgia has been under fire for their admissions policy. The truth is they work hard to admit the widest variety of students for the demanding academic environment through the Arch.

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