SANTA RITA, GuamU.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Antonio Grant, from Newton, carries hazardous material containers aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy while ported in Santa Rita, Guam, as part of Pacific Partnership. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships. U.S. Navy Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gavin Arnoldhendershot
U.S. Navy Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gavin ArnoldhendershotU.S. Navy Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gavin Arnoldhendershotnavy local 2.jpg
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.
A congressional hearing this week on proposed national packaging-labeling standards could have implications for several of Southwest Georgia’s largest manufacturers, many of which produce or package products shipped across state lines.
“The sheriff’s office will conduct an administrative investigation to determine if the staff response was appropriate. We have requested that the GBI conduct an investigation.”