Comments from our readers:

RICHMOND COUNTY Board of Education Transportation Department: Your school bus drivers out on Highway 56 are very reckless.

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE JOKE! For Merry and Fennoy, it cost nothing, but it cost the taxpayers $13,000! Ms. Paschall ought to be run out of this county. Most any other attorney wouldn't have charged but $500 to handle that case.

MERRY AND FENNOY are an embarrassment to Richmond County. However, Fennoy calling Merry a redneck reeks of a double standard, and I think that is wrong.

I SEE SAXBY won't testify in the sugar case. What's he got to hide?

A RANT FOR the 16-year-old at Evans High School who brought a gun to school, and also a rant to The Augusta Chronicle for condoning it.

RANT ABOUT EVERYONE complaining about Obama. It's time for racism to bury its head. This is America, love it or leave it.

RE: MERRY, FENNOY. The people that need to stand before a judge are the attorney Evita Paschall and the Coliseum Authority. Bank robbers don't get away with that much loot. It's ridiculous.

LET FRED RUSSELL get by with less. We need someone in Augusta who truly knows the value of a dollar.

I VOTED FOR McCain but now I'm fed up with him. The very idea of him cozying up with Obama is disgusting.

THE COLUMBIA COUNTY school board must be full of socialists. Why else would they try to punish an upstanding young man who happened to make a mistake?

TO THE RICH SNOB who suggested that the government do away with unions: I bet you've probably never done a day of real hard work in your life.

WHY IS IT THAT if you are a Caucasian and you don't vote for a black man, you are called a racist, but if you are an African-American and you don't vote for a white man, you're not racist?

TO THE DEADBEATS ranting about the food bank: They gripe about what they get for free and bite the hand that feeds them. If you want better, get on your hind legs and get a job.

AUGUSTA CHRONICLE discontinuing the delivery of a printed newspaper to Lincoln County residents will be very hard on seniors who don't use the computer and have read a printed newspaper every day all of their lives. Isn't their some help for them?