Here are some of the issues that area residents are discussing. The statements were phoned in anonymously so the Courier does not vouch for their veracity, nor do we know what motivated the callers:

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter, or so they thought. He is more trouble dead than he is alive. Thank God for the resurrection.

I think it’s a shame that Bradwell basketball doesn’t have a banquet for girls or boys basketball. As hard as these kids work to achieve excellence, you can’t award them at the end of the season? Bradwell, take a clue from Liberty High School.

I read in Friday’s paper where the mayor said the raises were discussed in open meeting during a planning session last summer on Jekyll Island. I wonder how many citizens of Hinesville knew they had the opportunity to attend that meeting?

To the caller who said our country has gone to Hell in a handbasket. It sure did, eight years ago.