Patrick Graham

3 weeks ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

I like county Chairman David Thompson, I really do, which is why I feel compelled to impart some unsolicited public relations advice regarding the approach he and others who support a property tax increase for the county’s upcoming fiscal year budget are taking. First, don’t tell your constituents who disagree to stop whining about what they pay in property taxes and their opposition to an increase.

1 month ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

A Walton County teen died tragically on Tuesday from drowning in Lake Rutledge at Hard Labor Creek State Park. According to Morgan County Sheriff’s Tyler Hooks, Tyler Oliver was pronounced dead at Morgan Medical Center at 5:06 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20. Hooks said Oliver was with a female friend at the lake and was not a proficient swimmer. “He went under and she couldn’t see him,” Hook said. A bystander entered the lake and pulled Oliver out and started CPR.

1 month ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

Dear Mom,So, sometimes there is so much going on it’s really a  little hard to nail down what I’m going to lead with in this letter to you each Mother’s Day. Yeah, this year, not so much. Don’t get me wrong, life both personally and professionally is just as crazy as ever, but there is nothing you are going to be more interested in than what I’m about to tell you. You have a new great grandchild in the family, and believe it or not, it’s a boy!Yes, the streak has ended.

1 month ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

The early 2000s were one of the heydays of bank consolidation, and more and more banking customers locally were finding the decisions affecting them and their banking needs were being made not just in other parts of the state, but other parts of the country as well. In fact, those critical banking decisions were being made by people they’d never met and they were never going to meet. Complete strangers.

1 month ago | waltontribune.com | Patrick Graham

Rosie the Riveter is perhaps one of the most iconic images in our country’s history, the face of a recruiting campaign representing millions of American women who entered the workforce during World War II to take over factory jobs previously held by men who were going from the assembly line to the front line to fight in the war instead.