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A different resolution
Mitch Clarke
      I don't usually make New Year's resolutions because I usually can't keep them. Like many people, I start the year with grand plans and by the second week of January, I'm back to my old habits. For many years, I resolved to lose weight. My pants were a little tight, and I was really feeling out of...
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Mumbles
Call us whatever you like
Billy Fleming
      Did he call us toad frogs or hoot owls? I've cried "wolf!" and rattled my saber enough over the past 25 years. Take note what Sam Griffin and now Bill Shipp are having to say on page five about metro Atlanta eying our water! And, if we're not careful, we're gonna look like Floyd Patterson shortl...
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All That's Fit to Print
Scientists finally get it right
Brenda Wall
      A Monday news item caught my eye. Napping is good for the memory. Finally, scientific research has discovered something worth finding. According to the report, people who take afternoon naps remember things better than people who don't.
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Let's come up with some new resolutions
Alex McRae
      Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is still sleeping off Christmas night, the Atlanta Falcons are still sleeping off a miserable season and the rest of us are trying to decide how we'll face the brave, new year of 2008. Which means it's time to help you folks get those New Year's resolutions into sha...
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Shipp's Georgia
South Georgia should secede
Bill Shipp
      The great water crisis proves at least one thing. Georgia should be divided into two states. The present single-Georgia system is not working. If our senators and congressmen were in tune with the pressing needs of their South Georgia constituents, they would start pushing a charter for the state...
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Georgians are stepping up
Sam Griffin Jr.
      For nearly two decades, a few dedicated Georgians, such as Dr. Oscar Jackson, Jim Butler, Neill Herring, Jerry Sherk, Sally Bethea, Janet Sheldon, Susie Wynn and the late Jason Landers, have ridden herd on the assault on non-metro Georgia's water - its rivers and streams and aquifersby metro Atla...
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From our Files News from the past
Sheriff uncovers local still
      10 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1998 THE SPECIAL option sales tax approved by voters in September to help finance school system renovations and modernization projects, including renovating Mangham Auditorium, went into effect Jan.1. LOGAN Taylor Harrell is proud to announce the birth of her sister, Layt...
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