I’ve honestly had to try a little harder this year to get in the Christmas spirit. I am not Scrooge or even Scrooge McDuck, but I have felt that the holidays were quickly getting away from me.

Willie,
Yes, I just wanted to put in the paper about the lights down in Seneca. They did an awesome, awesome job!

Students in Oconee and Pickens counties are out of school today for a second consecutive day in the aftermath of Sunday’s first winter storm of the season.

As the holidays approach, my thoughts are stuck on the tragic situation with migrant families along our southern border.

Willie says: The Journal got a call from a woman who has a commercial cracking machine and would be happy to crack my Willie readers’ pecans.

Willie: This is for the state and the county that’s always asking for volunteer groups to pick up trash on the highways.

One of my favorite 4-H programs that I get to work with is called the Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP). 

Last Saturday night, well after the final gun had sounded on college football’s regular season, two men fought for what was once the greatest prize in sports — the world heavyweight boxing title.

Homelessness is a tricky issue.

I’m sick of politics; therefore there will be none from me this week. 

In what has become commonplace during the era of Clemson football under coach Dabo Swinney, the Clemson Tigers continue to make history.

They have been called “the Greatest Generation,” a phrase coined by retired NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.

I think I finally did it. I feel that my house is back in order after all those people to whom I am related and love so much took over during Thanksgiving.

Willie: I need help. I bought the Georgia pecans from a guy for many years here in the Oconee area.