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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: 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.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Entitlement has replaced pride as Albany continues to diminish

The wave of nostalgia during my riverfront visit awakened in me thoughts of an adult life lived primarily in this community.

National Day of Prayer rescheduled for May 28

Observance of the 75th National Day of Prayer in Albany has been rescheduled for May 28.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Southwest Georgia voters should maintain rare political integrity

I’m going to encourage voters in this region to cast their ballots for Edward Brown in the state Senate District 12 race.

District 4 candidate Al Wynn relies on lessons learned from first political campaign

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.

CARLTON FLETCHER: A ‘good idea’ whose time evidently came and went

In a time from the late ‘80s to the start of the new millennium, the music scene in Albany was bustling.

Anthony Jones – District 6 Dougherty Commission: Incumbent vows to ‘listen, learn, lead’

Anthony Jones’ approach to county government is a simple one, based on the way he’s lived his life.

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