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Covering President Jimmy Carter

I was never able to meet President Jimmy Carter. I came close to seeing him once. I was ...

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Coffee shops

I like coffee shops. I’ve always found this a good place to be creative. Thankfully, this town has ...

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Fishing for bass

Growing up, I would occasionally fish for bass in my grandfather’s pond. I admit, I was usually interested ...

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How I try to keep a social life

I admit, my life probably isn’t very social. I’m introverted, and have often held the habit of avoiding ...

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Thankfulness

I am not always a very thankful person. It’s quite easy for me to try and constantly improve, ...

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Beekeeping

Another of the many fields that span my varied misadventures is the field of apiculture. What is apiculture, ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: About Football Today

There is so much uneasiness about college football today, and while I am comfortable with paying the players, ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Erk Campaign

As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Ladd McConkey

After a brief respite in the hills of Northwest Georgia, the Chatsworth Cheetah—a most appropriate byname for Ladd ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Orlean Castronis

Orlean Castronis is a retired former journalist, the widow of one of the most popular players and coaches ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Wimbledon

The fortnight that it takes to determine the various champions of Wimbledon, one of the classiest sporting events, ...

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Privilege: An Editorial

I once read that France created an elaborate system of etiquette as a way to distinguish between classes. ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Willie Mays

The tributes to Willie Mays last week were bittersweet. He, of course, deserved all the lofty praise, but ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Wes Johnson

In all likelihood, Georgia baseball coach Wes Johnson is not a devotee of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. He ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Charlie Condon

A few weeks ago in Phoenix, the Arizona Diamondbacks were hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers which brought about ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Players Championship

When Wyndham Clark’s birdie putt lipped out of the cup late last Sunday at Ponte Vedra, it was ...

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Loren Smith’s Sports Column: The Steg and the Coach

The Steg in winter is now the place to be unless you have a fireplace, firewood, and a ...

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Loren Smith’s Sports Column: Super Dawg

There will be a Georgia player in the forthcoming Super Bowl for the 23rd consecutive season on February ...

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Loran Smith’s feature column: Homer Harding

It has been several seasons since I have pheasant hunted in South Dakota, but I fully expect to ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Norman King

Years ago, Reader’s Digest, published a periodic feature under the heading of, “The Most Unforgettable Character I ever ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Mark Richt

LAS VEGAS – Not sure how many halls of fame Mark Richt will become a member of, but ...

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Loran Smith’s Thanksgiving Column

I’m Thankful   Each of us is given the gift of 86,400 seconds each day. How often have ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Autumn reflections

As the fields across the landscape emerge into a state of fallowness and the thermometer trends downward, we ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Tennessee

Although Georgia and Tennessee competed in football in the early 1900’s, the two teams did not play each ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Peanuts

During the harvest season in October, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where the harvesting of ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Vernon and Patricia

  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – Owing to a college friendship, I was the beneficiary of the most ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Helen Reminisces

HELEN – I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Hoylake

With the Open championship (you see I am yielding to the Brits who prefer—sometimes insist—that their national golfing ...

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