Your Voices

Published 8:00 am Sunday, July 30, 2017

The Thomasville Times-Enterprise will be printing some of the comments on its social media pages, along with poll results from our social media pages and website. Make your comments too on the Thomasville Times-Enterprise Facebook page and Twitter page, both @timesenterprise, and answer polls at www.timesenterprise.com.  

From the Thomasville Times-Enterprise Facebook page:  

We published a report on a beer truck robbed during a delivery. How is how our readers responded. 

• Thomasville has been going crazy these last few weeks. — Ronnie Eunice 

• Believe it or not, this happens quite often. I use to run a beer truck and it happened multiple times. Actually to think of it it happens twice in (Thomasville). — Eric Rogers 

We published an article on Georgia lawmakersdiscussing the shortage of nurses could grow deeper. Our readers responded. 

• Maybe if certain hospitals paid their nursing staff what they were worth, there would be more interest in staying. I know Colquitt County and Tallahassee obviously value their nursing staff; they are willing to pay a reasonable salary to prove it. — Brian Phinazee

We published a report on a man out on bond arrested again. Here is what our readers thought. 

• Sounds like law enforcement at its finest. — Lenzie Brinson 

• He will be back out and do it again in nothing flat. — Katrina Lewis Hatcher

 TTE’s Patti Dozier published a report on a drug bust at a Thomasville hotel. Here is how our readersreacted. 

• I bet we all can guess what “US 19 Hotel” this is… does it rhyme with “Terinna Binn?” — Amy Ponder

• A drug dealer and a thief at only 24. Sad. — Janean Dangler

We published a feature on Jonathan DeLay,Thomasville’s new quarterbacks coach. Here is how our readers responded to the new coach. 

• Miss you guys! Please tell him Billy really missed him during his senior season. — Greta Wilson Burke

• Cool! — Kristen Bragg Bell

• Aw, great article! Miss you guys! — Jennifer Eason Burton 

• Awesome! Miss the Delays! — Heather Bridges 

• So happy for you guys! Miss you in FC! — Meredith Milford Kilgore 

We published a sports story on the two young quarterbacks set to lead the Thomas County Central Yellow Jacket offense. Here is what our readers thought of the young athletes. 

• Go Jackets! It’s time for us to go to the Dome this year, pass due! — Tonia Jackson 

• I’ll be watching. — Heather Clark 

We recently published a story on where the large amounts of remaining food from Thomas County Prison’s closure is going. Our readers reacted. 

• Ewwwwwwwwww. — Linda McKinney

• Nasty… — Sabrina D Ortiz

• Ew? This is a wonderful thing. Glad to see it went to a place that needed it and not just thrown out. — Sheyna Marie 

TTE’s David Almeda published a story on four former Thomasville football players doing a heroic feat. Our readers responded to their act of bravery. 

• Proud of those young men… way to go Thomasville! — Jeannie Youmans

• Proud of these young men! Nice to see good news in the paper! Cindy Yauck Monteith

• So wonderful to see these young men not just sit by and do nothing but instead jump in and help! — Lisa Rosetta Roberts Hamm

• This is awesome. Just great “Bulldogs!” Thank you guys. — Linda Luke Howell

• Proud of my THS Bulldogs! — Alice Asks 

• So proud to be a THS dawg! Great job guys! — Bunki Arline

• We need more young men like this. — Jim Titus 

We published a story on local lawmakers andcommunity leaders addressing the impact of thelawsuit that closed Southwestern State Hospital. Here is what our readers thought. 

• The state had plenty of time to do this right. They did not, now these people are dying and abused in community care. — Lori Clark

From www.timesenterprise.com: 

We polled our readers on whether the trees in Tired Creek Lake’s dam should be removed. Here are the results. 

• Yes: 22 votes 

• No: 21 votes