A farewell to tennis great Serena Williams

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September 7, 2022
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By Paul Bacon

To the Editor:

I guess this is the end. I want to say a big thank you to my greatest inspiration, Serena Williams. It’s been a pleasure following you all throughout the years and seeing you change the game. Thank you for showing us we can be the best at anything.

— Paul Bacon

Hallandale Beach, Fla.
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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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