Willie: Perhaps you can tell me what gives a county the right to annex another county’s property. Do they just have to put the idea in their future plans? Also, is Death Valley available?

Willie: Every time I used to leave my house, I would see a police officer patrolling Salem. I haven’t seen one police officer in three months.

Willie,

I wonder how many have gone to U.S. Dept. of Justice.com and read the 2/16/2018 DOJ criminal indictment #18 USC 2,3TI,1349,1028A alleging conspiracy to defraud the U.S. political system and interference with the U.S. political system by the Russian organization Internet Research Agency LLC and Russian national Yevgeniy Victorovich Prigozhin from 2014 through 2016?

Willie: Gail Court is a small five-building apartment complex at South Cove Road and Keowee School Road.

Willie: My hat is off to the law enforcement officers who have participated and will participate in Operation Infinity, which has resulted in many arrests of meth dealers.

Willie: I live in the Ebenezer community, and I was wondering, I saw in the paper where there were people burglarizing people’s houses.

Willie: Recently you had a lot of complaints in your article from people about the Walhalla water bill and the length of time that you were given to pay that. Evidently, it didn’t do any good.

Willie: Hope you’re doing well and had a great Valentine’s Day. Oconee County officials need to be reactive and move swiftly with this annexation situation.

Willie: I’m calling to tell you how much I appreciate your column today and the fact that you are not afraid to express your faith. Nothing fancy. You didn’t particularly talk about any one religion.

Willie, a suggestion — during school recess, why not assign every cop normally assigned to a school to spend a day or two at a convenience center and slap fines on those who don’t believe in covering their garbage?

Willie: Your column stated that the proposal from Reps. Hixon and Johnson slashes the mandatory penalty from $200 to between $25 and $100.

Willie,

Our country is experiencing mass shootings at the rate of 300 per year.

Willie: Good to see in the Feb. 10 edition that eight more were arrested in the latest drug sweep.

Willie: My many decades of experiences with immigrants, both legal and undocumented, have shown them to be very hard workers, entrepreneurial and assets to their U.S. communities.