Here are some of the issues 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:

To the caller who keeps complaining about the gates not being open on Fort Stewart in the morning, how about calling post command and not Sound off?

Yes, the city of Walthourville needs to get a new police chief. And the city of Walthourville needs to get a new mayor. What kind of city are they running that they’ve got the lieutenant running cars in the ditch and they’re doing nothing about that. They need to replace the chief and they need to replace the mayor and I think the city would run real better.

I was once part of a union. All they ever did for us was take part of our paycheck away. Hmmm.

I’m appalled at you, editor, to allow the article about Isle of Wight men and women’s club, the fish fry, to be printed at all, let alone to be printed on the front page. It’s hard enough to raise decent children nowadays without you printing such trash and that’s where that article should have been. It should have been thrown in the trash and not into the faces of decent people and children.

Yes, I’d like to know what did the military retirees do to deserve a pay cut. First no cost-of-living raise and now a pay cut. What’s going on? Are they being punished or what?