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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Attention home delivery customers: Starting March 4, your paper will be delivered by the post office.
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