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From the Editor's Desk
I guess one of the surprising things over the course of tackling this issue in the paper was the relative lack of letters we received over the months preceeding the vote. I really expected a steady stream of one or two a week, but that never really materialized. There were three letters that never made it to print because the writers wanted to remain anonymous. That goes against our policy here, so those were not published. I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to write. I've always felt that letters to the editor help make a good community newspaper. I'd like to encourage all our readers to write to us about topics that interest or concern you. I remember the first little newspaper I worked for received quite a few letters. Every week we'd publish four to five. Wouldn't mind seeing that here. He didn't say it There's a popular quote I've heard over the years that claims Benjamin Franklin said that beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. The alcohol debate here kept bringing that quote to my mind. Well, I decided to look into it further and found that other, better researchers had already tackled the problem. While it's quite a quip and sounds like something he might have said, research pretty clearly indicates that Franklin never said or wrote such a thing. On Yahoo! Thomasville made the headlines on the search engine - web portal Yahoo! This week in a roundabout kind of way. The story was actually about Athens and its vote to go back to being dry, but the story also mentioned Thomasville from what I'm told. Less than kind
Some other folks found out about Thomasville's wet/dry issue on the internet last week. Apparently, someone sent a link to the letters section on our web site to a headline aggregator on the web. The comments posted to that site were not very kind to Thomasville. And I received a couple of pointed emails that were far from charitable about our fair city. What was it that comedian said? Sometimes you wish ignorance was painful?
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