LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A sad farewell to Paulie Walnuts

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July 13, 2022
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By Paul Bacon

To the Editor

RIP Tony Sirico. What an icon. “The Sopranos’” Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualteri is one of the greatest TV characters of all time.

— 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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