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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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Phoebe tree-lighting event offers hope to cancer patients

Albany friends and cancer survivors light Phoebe's Christmas tree during Lights of Love ceremony.

Third issue of Southwest Georgia Outdoors magazine available

The third edition of The Albany Herald-produced Southwest Georgia Outdoors magazine has been printed and is available for free at the Herald’s 306 W. Broad Ave. offices.

CARLTON FLETCHER: To think, it all started with sticks and stones

It started with rocks. And sticks.

Area hospitals score well in latest Leapfrog evaluation

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany scored a "C" on the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade evaluation conducted by the group, while Colquitt Regional Hospital in Moultrie scored its 21st "A."

CARLTON FLETCHER: Remembering an Albany past that’s all but disappeared

Albany today has grown old.

Phoebe unveils mobile simulation center at Merry Acres Middle School

Phoebe Putney Health System took a step toward removing one of the primary barriers that keeps local students from the health care field  – access – with the unveiling of the hospital system’s Simulation & Innovation Mobile Unit at Merry Acres Middle School.

Family’s ‘free mini food pantry’ provides for city’s needy

An Albany family's plan has morphed into a free mini food pantry set up on Pearl Avenue in northwest Albany.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Magic of The Beatles transcends decades of time passage

I saw “A Hard Day’s Night” back when I was 8 years old, and I was enthralled then as only one caught up in the madness of Beatlemania could have been.

Registration underway for 13th Barney’s Run for Warriors

The 13th Barney’s Run for Warriors is scheduled Nov. 15, with 13.1-mile (half-marathon), 10K, 5K and one-mile races set to start at 8:30 a.m.

CARLTON FLETCHER: Pride may come before a fall, but there are times when it’s a virtue

No matter how annoying it is to have someone walk up to me on the street and ask for money, I couldn’t help but wonder what circumstances had led the man to this.

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