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The fun of football
Other Voices
Mitch Clarke
      It was 100 degrees outside, but I realized that fall was just around the corner as soon as I heard the voice at the other end of the phone. "Is it true," the familiar voice boomed, "that the University of Georgia is installing artificial turf at Sanford Stadium to keep the cheerleaders from grazi...
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Beware movies with dogs
All That's Fit to Print
Brenda Wall
      I flipped the channel to the movie "Snakes on a Plane" Saturday night. I lasted about 15 minutes before I flipped over to an Andy Griffith rerun. It wasn't fear of snakes that made me change the channel. It was what I like to call the "Old Yeller rule," and it kicked in about the time I saw a chi...
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Mixin' the glitter & the kudzu
Mumbles
Billy Fleming
      When it comes to holidays I know there are some of you out there who are like my old yeller Lab Rusty who used to crawl under a spot where an electric fence hadn't stood for years. A lot of you have holiday vacation rituals which have grown into what Hank Jr. would call "a family tradition.
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It's time to get jumpy over jammies
Alex McRae
      I'm glad Roy Rogers isn't alive to see this. Imagine the king of the cowboys being called a killer.Worse, imagine me as one of his victims. It's a pajama problem. I gave up pajamas for good after I discovered superspy James Bond shunned formal sleepwear. Since then, it's been t-shirts and short...
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The silence of the Democrats
Shipp's Georgia
Bill Shipp
      Georgia's political leadership is at the low ebb of our modern era. Not since the days of the corrupt Talmadge dynasty have we seen a group in charge that is more focused on taking care of themselves and their friends while ignoring the problems that hold Georgia back and threaten our children's f...
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Vick will never play football again
Other Voices
Matt Towery
      It's been a hoot reading and listening to pundits and armchair legal analysts speculate on the fate awaiting Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on charges of illegal dogfighting. First the easy part: You can expect Vick to be handed a harsher sentence than the one year being bandied about ...
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Tax rate fixed at 5 mills
From our Files
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1997 THE ARTS Council's first community theater play debuts this weekend when 11 local actors perform John Patrick's "The Curious Savage." WITH THIS issue of the Early County News, we celebrate the 139th birthday as this community's hometown newspaper.
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Global warming issue overblown
      Georgia lawmakers shouldn't overreact to the scientific consensus that the world is getting warmer and humans are at least partly to blame, a handful of scientists told a legislative panel Tuesday.
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