Commentary on Current Events of Interest to Columbus, and the Surrounding Counties of NC
By Jefferson Weaver It hung, glistening, waiting to be a victim. I was more than happy to oblige. The grape was among the last I could find on the wild...
By Katie Compton Boyd I saw what strikes dread and terror in every old Southern woman’s heart: a wooly worm! An omen of a bad winter. It’s hard to imagine...
John Young is President and CEO of Columbus Regional Healthcare. Leading community organizations have agreed to join Columbus Regional in our 90-day campaign to slow the spread of the Coronavirus....
I know a fellow who has to carry a card with him everywhere he goes to prove he isn’t carrying a knife or shoplifting. Much of one leg is screwed...
By Katie Compton Boyd I remember as a child, the women in my family would remind me, “you mustn’t talk of politics or religion, especially at the dinner table. It...
I can’t recall the last time an election wasn’t “history making” or “the most important election of our lifetimes.” Once in a while, that’s been the case, but most times...
By Katie Compton Boyd It was a rookie mistake buying an 8-year-old boy a very realistic rubber rattlesnake. I knew too, at the time, that its fangs might be plastic but...
The phone rang, strident and screaming in the pre-dawn, at an hour that nothing good ever comes via telephone call. I tapped Toni the Pillow Puppy, and she moved without...
Editor’s note — we’re pleased to welcome Katie Compton Boyd to Columbuscountynews.com. Katie is the owner and operator of Old South Tour Company in Southport. Rather than tell you ab...
Two conversations with dear friends got me to thinking the other day about what things will be like when “this is all over.” Whether “this” is the pandemic, the quarantine,...
The dogs looked not just happy, but ecstatic. I sometimes think hounds look forward to the start of hunting seasons more than the hunters themselves. Their heads stuck out between...
Every missing person is somebody’s child. The yellow ribbons are gone and forgotten now. We put yellow ribbons up to welcome people home, or remind folks of those who haven’t...
Wherever it came from, whoever is behind it, whatever the reasons – burning, looting , and threatening have no positive effects on anyone. On the 19th anniversary of the night a...
Most of us have seen them as we drive through the country; groves of trees, sometimes tangled with honeysuckle, grapevines and wisteria, poison ivy and persimmons, surrounded by plowed rows...
Officers are being attacked, ridiculed, injured, and killed all over this country. This must stop! Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and th...
What happened to the country we all saw on Sept. 12, 2001? It’s still here, but you have to look. Like most of you, I can remember the day in...