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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 ...
Sports
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 ...
Sports
Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Wimbledon
With the Wimbledon finals coming up this weekend, I will be watching and not just the tennis—but also ...
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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Europe In Summer
It is difficult to book a seat on a plane or find an empty hotel room in the ...
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Loran Smith’s Column: Masters for Thursday
AUGUSTA – With every official, competitor and patron maintaining a hopeful eye on the weather while basking in ...
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Loren Smith’s Column: Masters Week
AUGUSTA – This has been an eventful week at the Augusta National Golf Club with rain or the ...
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Loren Smith’s column on former UGA football great Frank Sinkwich and the upcoming national title game against TCU
With the passing of time, signature moments of the past are often diminished and downgraded as inferior to ...
Sports
Loren Smith’s Column: Bowl Games
With the expansion of the playoffs, more bowl games, hopefully, will become more involved. After the support the ...
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Loren Smith’s Column: Jonas, Giving Back
Loren Smith’s Column: Jonas, Giving Back Somewhere along the way in recent years, I saw an ...
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Loren Smith on keeping the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville
It is interesting to see the reaction taking place in the city of Jacksonville regarding the playing of ...
Columns
It’s OK not to be OK – World Mental Health Awareness Month
By: Mrs. Husna Habib IEP Case Manager @ Sumter County High School It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s ...
Columns
Influenza in Americus Part 3: Remembering a Pandemic
BY: Evan Kutzler Five years before marrying Earl Carter and six years before giving birth a son named ...
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Influenza in Americus Part 2: Navigating Uncertainty
By: Evan Kutzler For some, the 1918-20 influenza pandemic undermined confidence in expert opinions. An anonymous contributor to ...
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Influenza in Americus
Part 1: The Force of a Train By: Evan Kutzler John Bradshaw knew the dangers of being a ...
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Americus History Trails
By: Evan A. Kutzler On Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., the Sumter Historic Trust will unveil ...
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Spring break adventures in New York and Spain
Submitted by Leila Case “It’s Easter time and time for eggs and time for eggs is Easter time.” ...
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Russians share their thoughts on Ukraine invasion
Dick Yarbrough Linden Longino is a retired Atlanta banker who should have Nobel Peace Prize recipient next to ...
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A poetry reading and Irish eyes are smiling
Leila Case It was a treat to see and talk to Gabriel Stauf of St. Petersburg, Florida, a ...
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First Lady’s leave their mark in history
By Leila Case Emily Woodyard of Macon presented an interesting talk on “Lesser Known First Lady’s” to members ...
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The day Ignite College and Career Academy put the skids on a family business
I have been Paul V. Hall’s daughter for 50 years. Most of the days making up those 50 ...
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Leila Case: My babysitting perils
By: Leila Case When I heard the price of babysitting had soared to as high as $23 an ...
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Dick Yarbrough: State of this column can’t be overstated
Written by Dick Yarbrough My fellow Georgians: (Yea! Clap! Clap! Clap!) I come before you today to submit to you ...
Columns
Saving Places, Telling Stories
By: Evan Kutzler Hancock Drive in Americus has a medley of historic homes. A walk along this street ...
Columns
Civil Rights and a Lived Theology in a Southern Town
January 13, 2022 Evan Kutzler Note: A version of this review was published on H-Net in April ...
Sports
Loren Smith’s Commentary: “One More Time”
We begin with sterling appreciation for Georgia’s coaching clinic disposal of the current Big Ten champions on New ...
Columns
Fairgrounds and College: The Local Lester Maddox
By: Evan Kutzler The first time Amanda and I visited the shops in Plains was the same day ...
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Grizzlies vs. Hawks Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under – March 3
The Memphis Grizzlies (38-22) face the Atlanta Hawks (27-33) as 8.5-point favorites on Monday, March 3, 2025 at…
Nets vs. Hawks Tickets Available – Sunday, March 16
On Sunday, March 16, 2025, the Brooklyn Nets (21-39) take on the Atlanta Hawks (27-33) at 6 p.m.…
March 3 NHL TV Schedule: TV Channel, Start Times & Live Streaming Options
There are several strong matchups on today’s NHL schedule, including a Tampa Bay Lightning playing the Florida Panthers.…
How to Watch Top 25 College Basketball Games – Tuesday, March 4
Top-25 teams will take the court across two games on Monday’s college basketball schedule. That includes the Wake…
Best Bets for NCAA Basketball Picks Against the Spread for Monday, March 3
In one of the many exciting matchups on the college basketball schedule on Monday, the McNeese Cowboys and…
