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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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Speakers announced for annual ALDON National Day of Prayer

Along with a noted pastor, local leaders from the medical field and law enforcement will be the speakers May 7 at the 75th annual ALDON National Day of Prayer.

For D-W actor, lead in ‘School of Rock’ is a ‘character, not a part’

The 11th-grader, who with senior Katherine Collins as school principal Rosalie Mullins, are the lead actors in the play.

CARLTON FLETCHER: You can stick your ABS … I’ll always prefer old-school baseball

Even if change is good, I sometimes am slow to adapt.

CARLTON FLETCHER: The horrors of a trip to the grocery store

Now the last time I shopped for groceries was several years ago, back when I lived a pretty sad and lonely existence.

Theatre Albany brings ‘British farce’ to stage

I’ve told the players a million times: ‘If it’s not fast, it’s not funny.

ASU Class of ’76 plans 50th anniversary reunion

The Albany State University Class of 1976 is invited to 50th Class Reunion events scheduled May 7-9.

Area high school students compete in Southern Regional Tech welding competition

Local high school students competed in a recent welding competition hosted by Southern Regional Technical College and Colquitt County High School.

CARLTON FLETCHER: National Youth Sports Program at ASU quietly sent into that good night

And, not to be nitpicky, but I don’t see the “progress” of having such a tedious process just to make a phone call that might take 15-20 minutes.

Dwindling group of area musicians always searching for a place to play

Unlike a recent "golden era" of local music, today no more than a handful of local bands performs at a much-smaller number of clubs and venues that offer live music.

ALBANY’S MUSIC SCENE … THEN AND NOW

If you’re looking for a cool “origin story,” few bands can match popular Albany-based late-’90s/2000s alternative rockers Holly Drive.

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