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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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10 Questions with singer David Phelps

David Phelps has performed at all the world’s great venues: the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the O2 Arena in Great Britain, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Grand Ole Opry in this country.

Survivor’s Dinner honors those who won their battle with cancer

Cancer survivors will be honored during American Cancer Society Survivor’s Dinner at First Baptist Church of Albany on March 24.

CARLTON FLETCHER: America is increasingly the land of the rich

I have over the years developed a strong disdain for the very wealthy.

‘Shock rock’ pioneer Alice Cooper to perform at Albany Civic Center

Tickets are on sale now for Alice Cooper's performance at the Albany Civic Center.

Dementia Support Center helps community ‘make more memories’

The Margaret Jo Hogg Dementia Support Center will host its annual dinner and dance fundraiser on April 17.

The Arc’s ‘beep ball’ tournament opens eyes to a new way of playing baseball

Beep ball is baseball for the blind.

CARLTON FLETCHER: The things we think about

Some of the things I've been thinking about lately when I wake up at 4 a.m. and can't go back to sleep.

On the road to somewhere with the Stifftones in their hearse Tania

The Stifftones – and their hearse Tania – will make their way into Albany this weekend for their third show at the Oglethorpe Lounge.

State Bar accuses suspended Albany attorney of continuing practice

The State Bar of Georgia is asking the State Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Georgia to exercise its contempt powers and impose appropriate sanctions to enforce compliance and deter future violations of a suspension order against Albany attorney Joseph P. Durham.

Former Edison city clerk indicted by grand jury over missing funds

Former Edison City Clerk Tami Fincher has been indicted by a grand jury on charges that she knowingly and intentionally embezzled, stole or obtained by fraud funds utilizing a city of Edison credit card and through inflated payroll practices.

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