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.
Two large dump trucks, one of them filled to the top with trash, and heavy equipment were in a newly cleared path in woods off Stuart over the last few days, removing a mess that officials said was the result of homeless individuals seeking shelter out of the public eye.
Our president has basically taken advantage of a feckless, gutless Congress, a complicit Supreme Court and a sycophantic – but ever-shrinking – percentage of the population to run amok with the very Constitution that has sustained America throughout its existence.
Albany Police Department Chief Michael Persley and Keep Albany-Dougherty Beautiful Director Jwana Washington said a garbage heap on a busy Albany street could be an encampment for some of the area’s unhoused.
Businessman Al Wynn insists his unsuccessful run for a state House District 153 seat four years ago turned out to be an invaluable learning experience.