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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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Blues run soul deep on ‘The Page Brothers Band’

“The Page Brothers Band” is, songs 1-8, steeped in traditional Blues.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Celebrating Trump’s Heisman, NCAA championship, Cy Young, MVP …

Trump, whose much-maligned bone spurs kept him from being a college football superstar – and out of the army – said he easily would have claimed “four or five national championships.”

Sallay Jusu to replace Michael Meyer von Bremen as Magistrate Court judge

Sallay Jusu, deputy chief district attorney in the Dougherty District Attorney’s office, will replace Dougherty Magistrate Court Judge Michael Meyer von Bremen on the bench. Von Bremen, who served 12 years as a state Senator, is stepping down from the bench after serving as a Magistrate for seven years.

Gathering ammo for ‘Snow Wars ’26’

Albany sees significant snow for the second straight year.

Atlanta minister revives spirit of King Day Breakfast

Albany's H.E.A.R.T. organization presents its 46th King Day Breakfast at Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia kick off national cookie season 

Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia kicked off the 2026 Girl Scout Cookie season Jan. 2 as Scouts look to explore possibilities through the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world.

Testing of Flint River water quality in Dougherty County has begun

Recently the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s Water Protection branch added the section of the Flint River from the Lee County line to the Mitchell County line to the GAEPD Impaired Streams list.

CARLTON FLETCHER: You in Georgia, boy, where guns are way more important than the lives of our kids

State Senate shows in Georgia it's guns that matter most.

CARLTON FLETCHER: America is losing its faith … don’t blame the president

We have a faith problem in the United States.

Tickets on sale for annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast

The 49th annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast will be held at Feb. 5 6:30 a.m. at Sherwood Baptist Church's Fellowship Building at 2201 Whispering Pines Road.

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