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.
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.
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).