Community Input

It’s Spring Again

From the April 3, 2020 Edition

March 29, 2020 Fern’s Lake, PMC

It is Spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. —Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926

Submitted by Jo Ann Blair Pine Mountain Club

PMCPOA General Manager …

Jan Hellsund Sends Hellos from Albania

From the April 3, 2020 Edition

March 25, 2020 Dear Editor:

I am living in Saranda at the very southern end of Albania, almost in Greece.

I rent an ocean view condo for $280 per month. Climate is about 5 degrees …

Coronavirus Pen Pals

From the April 3, 2020 Edition

After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf…

March 31, 2020 Dear Editor:

We’re not doing too bad. Our new county in Kentucky has only two Covid-19 cases. …

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

From the April 3, 2020 Edition

March 30, 2020 Dear Editor:

This is a personal appeal to all Mountain Community residents. I am on the board of directors for the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center (MCFRC), the main go-to charity in …

Sheltering With Big Hearts

From the March 27, 2020 Edition

March 21, 2020 Dear Editor:

I understand we need to respect the shelter-in-place order. But there has to be something we as a community can do to support each other.

I see people …

Closure of Lebec Transfer Site – 2

From the March 27, 2020 Edition

This is another open letter to our District 2 Supervisor Zack Scrivner.

March 21, 2020 Dear Editor:

I am outraged that the Department of Public Works has deemed it necessary for me to drive over …

Closure of Lebec Transfer Site

From the March 27, 2020 Edition

This is an open letter to our District 2 Supervisor Zack Scrivner.

March 22, 2020 Dear Editor:

In these times and conditions, caution for all has to be a priority—caution on behalf of the public …

Doing our part

From the March 20, 2020 Edition

March 17, 2020

Dear Editor:

Many of the volunteers who

who are the backbone of Shelter on the Hill (SOTH), a nonprofit charitable organization, are retired. Many of them fall into that “vulnerable” category of …

PMC Board: Look Around You

From the March 20, 2020 Edition

March 16, 2020 Dear Editor:

This is an open letter to the Pine Mountain Club Property Owners Association Board of Directors. The rumors in PMC say that our PMCPOA financial department may be proposing …

Meals on (School Bus) Wheels

From the March 20, 2020 Edition

March 16, 2020 Happy Monday, Editor:

I’m sending this to you as I do not know the best person to whom to send my “two-cents.”

Our schools have a list of children on subsidized meals. …