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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: Politics … the ‘gift’ that keeps on giving, and giving, and …

As the Carpenters once told us, when it comes to politics in the wake of the midterm elections, “We’ve only just begun.”

Assistant fire chief: Common denominator in downtown fires is vagrants

Albany Fire Department officials say "vagrants" common denominator in rash of house fires.

Did Georgia voters throw out some babies with the bath water?

Somebody sent me an email Wednesday morning that said, “I’m sure you’re happy now that Democrats swept all the top positions in Georgia and took control of the U.S. House and Senate. You just wait; our country is headed to hell.”

Blue Wave! Democrats prevail in national, state, local elections

By early Wednesday morning, Georgians woke up to the new reality that their leadership had been completely flipped.

Ossoff gains re-election; Bottoms nation’s first African-American female governor; challenger leads commission race

Georgia became part of a historic blue wave that swept the nation Tuesday, returning a sitting Democratic senator to Washington and electing the nation’s first-ever African American female governor.

Hundreds take part in Herald trunk-or-treat event

They came from all over the city -- witches, princesses, Ninja warriors, Cats in Hats, axe-wielding demons, skeletons, policemen, Ninja Turtles, Spider-men, demon fearleaders, all kinds of super heroes and one spot-on, dead-letter-perfect miniature Erkle clone.

Albany Symphony set to kick off 63rd season featuring ‘Magic of Music’

This season, ASO is highlighting some of the orchestra’s principal musicians during each performance.

CARLTON FLETCHER: The WNBA … where ‘thug life’ is the league’s biggest(only) selling point

And here’s perhaps the oddest thing about the WNBA’s marketing plan: The league doesn’t highlight the skills of its players.

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.

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