I would love to spend time with my family at the Langdale Park and see the new trails, but it is not exactly a family oriented park now is it?

There are many homes, facilities in the area to help women overcome addiction and get their life on track, yet none for men unless you want to count prison.

I just read Coach Tomberlin's comments on Friday night's game. As both a LHS and VHS fan (when they aren't playing Lowndes), I am impressed with his leadership skills in the face of adversity from his employers. Surely it isn't easy to coach a team that knows their leader is on the way out. VBOE and Valdosta Touchdown Club need to seriously rethink their knee-jerk reaction to the Lowndes/Valdosta game.

You think the Lowndes Web sites are bad, you should see the city's teacher Web sites. There is never any information posted, much less updates. Everything reads, "under construction"— I know for a fact that many, if not all, county school teachers have to update their Web sites. Does the city even require their teachers to update theirs?

In response to the thumbs down about Department of Corrections: There's a lot the public hasn't been told. Like just how short staffed these facilities are run. Even shorter with furloughs. This isn't like a school where another person can fill in. There is just one more person not there but the inmates still are.

At last year’s VSU playoff game a little over 3,000 people attended, many of them students that got in free. This year VSU flew to Arkansas and then rented a fleet of buses to take them to the stadium. Extracurricular activities like football are supposed to be self supporting. The students at VSU currently pay the highest fees of any school in the state and we still can't get many of the classes we need. Please don't ask us to pay for a football stadium. Let all of the fans and former players pay for it. It’s a hobby.

I think the Valdosta football booster club is looking pretty dumb right now. Great job Coach T, keep it up, win state and rub it in all their faces.

I'm not surprised by what happened to correctional officer Hankerson. The prisons are always short staffed and the employee turnover is extremely high. Buildings require two floor officers. Most buildings only ever have one. Drugs and cell phones are constantly getting into the prison.