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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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Phone: 229-888-9300

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United Way of Southwest Georgia halts funding for regional restructuring

The United Way of Southwest Georgia plans to withhold typical funding for a whole year during a “restructuring” period.

Colonial Dames: 100 years of education and service in Albany

Albany's ColonialDames are just as engaged today as they were 100 years ago when the Albany Town Committee was formed.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Lousy customer service leaves a fowl taste

Before I get into this, let me say from the get-go that I understand that we all have bad days, that the aggravations of life can put a damper on everything that gets in our way on a given day.

Bringing (positive) changes to The Herald’s Squawkbox

The Herald, as part of The Georgia Trust for Local News, is altering the way the Squawkbox is presented.

Theatre Albany’s first 55-over production set for weekend matinees

Squeezing “Singing in the Rain” into the Theatre Albany schedule was no small order.

Homeschool students reduce prep time for ‘Anastasia’ production to 24 hours

Albany Area Homeschool Theater Association will bring the first 24-hour play to the area Friday.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Great — and maybe not so great — expectations

During his heyday, mostly in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Lewis Grizzard was one of, if not the, most celebrated columnists in America.

Property owner removes debris from northwest Albany ‘homeless encampment’

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.

CARLTON FLETCHER: The future of America literally hangs in the balance

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.

Trash piled up on busy street part of suspected unhoused enclave

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.

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