Editorials
SMITH COLUMN: Back to school at the University of Georgia
Seeing all the vans and U-Haul trailers across town last weekend brought about a reminder that there is nothing like the return of the students ...
Loran Smith, Author at LaGrange Daily News
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Vin Scully
When the Dodgers played their first season of baseball in Los Angeles in 1958, they competed in what had to be the worst facility in ...
by Loran Smith, Wednesday, August 10, 2022 11:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Noland & UGA
Here in late summer when Nolan Sental Smith, Georgia’s multipurposed linebacker, returned home for a promotion for the Boys and Girls Club, he was introduced ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, August 4, 2022 6:42 pm
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: The best part of a colonoscopy is when it’s over
A colonoscopy is not a lot of fun, but for one gut wrenching night and a beleaguered morning after every five years, it is not ...
by Loran Smith, Friday, July 22, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Reminiscing about the British Open
St. Andrews is a place I love and not just for the Open Championship which comes about every half dozen years or so. This year ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, July 21, 2022 10:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: The good days of the nightly news
The nightly news is not for me anymore. It is just too much murder, mayhem, venom and hate. I would much prefer the “News from ...
by Loran Smith, Saturday, July 16, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Boys of Summer
Years ago, I enjoyed a nice summer outing in Kansas City working with Tom Watson and his charity golf outing, which raised big dollars for ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, July 7, 2022 9:00 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Remembering Chester Leathers
The death of an old friend always brings about flashbacks to happier times, when life was uncomplicated, settled and harmonious for the most part. It ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, June 23, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Northern Cardinal
For reasons that don’t require full disclosure, I have set up a temporary desk in our kitchen by a bay window that blissfully connects me ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, June 16, 2022 9:30 am
Columns
SMITH COLUMN: Summer of 1962
Repairing to my basement office earlier this week to search for a document, I ran across a file labeled, “Coast Guard,” which brought pause to ...