...commissioners are benefitting from this rigorous extra training and seminar attendance. That's why they're so effective, don't you know.Have a bang-up Fourth of July!Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...that are good."- On the Roasters: "Whenever you need someone to come and say something kind about any of you, please, please call upon me. I will definitely be there."Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...and he said the battery might be bad. So he put another one in and said if it happened again to bring the phone back and swap it for another one.But what good would that do?Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...food.' " (See last week's column.)Oh, by the way, Augusta ranked way up there in yet another national ranking -- third in the top 15 most dangerous cities for driving.Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...1,972 between 2000 and 2010.What all this means is that districts that lost population the past 10 years will get bigger and those that gained population will get smaller.Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...that's nothing but a big lie," I said. "I've never had a drink of Jim Crow in my life. And this just goes to show that that fool doesn't know what he's talking about."Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...design it would be appropriate for you to have input at that time, not prior to hiring the architect," Russell said."Evidently, my memory must be failing," said Brigham.Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...held signs saying, "Elect Cover dale for U.S. Senate." I told her they had misspelled his name. So they hid all the signs, and from then on Leona and I were friends.Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...prison before coming to work for the city in 1986. Until recently, he worked for several years out of Russell's office, serving as his "eyes and ears," Russell has said.Reach Sylvia Cooper at sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com.

...the result of a lot of hard work by everyone involved. Reach Sylvia Cooper at (706) 823-3228 or sylvia.cooper@augustachronicle.com. PROPOSED JUDICIAL CENTER The Plans for a new judicial center are on schedule and under budget. Groundbreaking...