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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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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.

Country star Jo Dee Messina’s tour brings her to Tifton venue

Country music star Jo Dee Messina played a huge role in literally changing the face of the genre in the 1990s

CARLTON FLETCHER: Let’s not let pesky Constitution stand in the way of real America

Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott has, it seems, come up with a new definition of what it means to be an American.

Political newcomer Terence Fowler to take on Freddie Powell Sims in Senate District 12

Terence Fowler is a first-time candidate, but he knows his way around politics.

Theatre Albany to bring Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Cinderella’ to the stage

To say Vickie Knuckles has “grown to love musical theater” is oversimplification of facts in evidence.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Stephen King challenge: Take on all seven ‘Dark Tower’ novels

Horror fiction master Stephen King has taken over the airwaves.

First-generation homeowners close on Habitat for Humanity home

The Pascoe family of Albany became first-generation homeowners thanks to Flint River Habitat for Humaity.

Albany ‘Renaissance Man’ Dr. Jose Tongol is equal parts healer and artist

Beloved by the thousands of cancer patients he’s treated with compassion and kindness over the years, Dr. Jose Tongol is almost as well-known for his musical and other artistic pursuits as he is his medical skills.

Albany racquet complex: ‘ We do it together or not at all’ 

An Albany developer's gift of prime real estate ended what has been a decades-long issue in Albany: spending SPLOST funds on a recreational complex.

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