Bill Kirby

Thou­sands of area high school students will be graduating in the weeks ahead. What would you like to tell them?

No one seems to remember the 1920 fire that almost destroyed Augusta's courthouse.

I don't know about you, but I am beginning to get computer e-mail "spam" in foreign languages. Some of it appears Arabic. Some Spanish. Even Chinese.

I find it amazing to hold something in my hand that someone made thousands of years ago. Saturday I learned that anything that old is not an “arrowhead,” but some sort of spear point.

Marriage, it seems, is most like baseball because you find its sincerest satisfaction when you choose a team and stick with it.

So I was at the Augusta History Museum's Brown Bag lunch Wednesday and the people at my table were kind enough to ask about my two little terriers.

Tom Campbell, a longtime television newsman and anchor at WRDW-TV, died Wednesady after a yearlong battle with cancer.

History’s a funny thing. It’s also tragic, serious, sad and deadly. But I like the funny parts because the good guys win, nobody gets hurt and we all can laugh at someone else’s foolishness.

Online maps and their street view features can provide a trip down Memory Lane.

John Gogick has been named executive editor of The Augusta Chronicle, succeeding Alan English, who has been promoted to vice president of audience.

Wife calls me at work. I can hear her shaking papers in background. It's the family phone bill, I am told.

The Kennebec Journal reported that an effort to send petitions to Augusta National Golf Club over its membership policy got the wrong name, the wrong place and the wrong state.

Let me simplify American history. We are a nation, a society, an economic system founded on the acquisition of stuff.

If you're like me, you hate it when anyone at a restaurant plays or sings Happy Birthday for you.

The GreenJackets opened at home this weekend and I was back in my Lake Olmstead Stadium element.

Many things divide the genders and cake-and-candle-day is one of them.

I have long maintained that the Richmond County Jail be removed not because it encourages escape attempts, but because it justifies them.

As they say, yesterday is experience; tomorrow is hope; today is getting from one to the other.

A story for this morning. In 1909, an Augusta businessman opened an office in downtown Atlanta. His name was T. Harry Oates and, like his father before him, he dealt in musical equipment.

A lot of stamp collectors focus on themes, but if yours is golf, you have a pretty small collection. The best I can tell, only three golfers have been honored with an image on a U.S. postage stamp.