Albany settles in for fight against blight

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August 9, 2016

This house on Cotton Avenue in Albany has broken windows and doors and is overrun with vegetation. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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City of Albany officials are looking for community buy-in as they take a systematic approach at fighting blight in the community.

The cost of removing materials from crumbling properties like this one on South Monroe Street is part of what limits the city’s blight eradication efforts. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Ward III Albany City Commissioner B.J. Fletcher looks over a crumbling building on South Monroe Street, one of a number of properties the city hopes to clean up during its Fight Albany Blight program. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

A crumbling, hollowed-out building in south Albany is among those scheduled for demolition soon. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Ramshackle properties in Albany are frequent hangouts for those involved in the drug trade. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Some crumbling properties in Albany are located in the middle of well-kept neighborhoods. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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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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Albany settles in for fight against blight

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