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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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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.

SCOTT LUDWIG: I know you are, but what am I?

Pam Bondi used her time to attack the members of Congress charged with holding her to account.

MICHAEL FERGUSON II: Selective outrage and the illusion of equity in Albany

Stories here don’t stand alone; they carry history, shared experience.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Recent drag-racing deaths do little to slow Albany drivers

Over the past weekend, two drag racers crashed in a post-midnight drag race, killing two people, including a 4-year-old child.

Search of two residences turns up cash, suspected illegal drugs

Area law enforcement agencies seized marijuana, cocaine and other controlled substances, along with cash, and made three arrests during a Saturday operation.

Albany restaurateur Manny Reyes’ persistence pays off 

Time after time, Reyes loaded up his family and drove to New York, where he’d work for a couple of weeks at a time to make the money that would allow him to return to Albany.

World-renowned pianist joins ASO to perform ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ Gershwin classics

Pianist Kevin Cole joins the Albany Symphony Orchestra to present “Rhapsody in Blue,” one of the most recognizable and beloved American musical compositions of the 20th century

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