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Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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CARLTON FLETCHER: Riding that gravy train of ‘free money’

I need that $5,000 I’m going to get if the GOP prevails.

Senator-elect Ed Brown unveils ‘Blueprint for Building a Better Georgia’

This is the time of year most politicians are either gearing up for the challenges that await them on Election Day or resting on their laurels, enjoying the last couple of months or so of calm before the hoopla surrounding the legislative session starts up.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Mike Collins’ nauseating political ad written for 4-year-old mentality

I think it should be clarified that Ossoff didn't "vote to raise taxes" as that stupid, misleading, lie of an ad says.

CARLTON FLETCHER: After tragedy, restaurateur’s future centers on her staff, customers

Restaurateur B.J. Fletcher ponders her future after a fire at her popular restaurant.

Blackberry Smoke celebrate 25 years with tour supporting greatest hits: ‘Rattle, Ramble and Roll’

Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr talks to The Albany Herald about the band's show here Oct. 22.

Despite tax-exempt status, Phoebe is third-highest taxpayer in Dougherty County

In tax year 2025, Phoebe paid a total of $960,370 in property taxes, trailing only Georgia Power Co. ($2,782,559.87) and Sabal Trail Transmission LLC ($2,335,948.31).

Weather conditions, water usage lead to dried-up Radium Springs

Radium Springs was purchased by DNR after the Flood of 1998, the second "500-year flood" that hit the area in a four-year period.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Imagine swatting a fly with a rolled-up TV

The love for newspapers stretches out over the decades.

An insider’s (semi-fictionalized) look at Cruising Albany’s Slappey Boulevard

Graylon Brunson has written and published a pair of books about Cruising Slappey Boulevard as a teenager.

Dougherty voters will cast ballots in 26 precincts

Dougherty County voters will cast ballots in 26 precincts.

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