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What's the hurry?
Mitch Clarke
      Fifty years ago, Chrysler first installed in its Imperial model a device that automatically controlled the car's rate of motion, and thus, the cruise control was born. I come from a long line of heavy-footed drivers.
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Mumbles
Of bugs gone by, grandkids
Billy Fleming
      Things are a little different around the house this week. The "pitter-patter" of the grandkids' little feet can be heard all over the house. The pitter-patter is actually a misnomer and a memory. Allen and Denise left the pitter-patter stage behind several years ago.
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All That's Fit to Print
It's real tomato time
Brenda Wall
      Last Tuesday, my first real tomato of the season appeared. For me, the arrival of ripe tomatoes is the grown-up equivalent of Santa Claus. I think about it for months and then suddenly a bag filled with surprises appears. I really do think about real tomatoes all year.
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LETTERS
      More Jefferson County transplants Dear editor, This is another true story in reference to the one you ran on Mr. Billy Jordan, May 5. It seems as if a lot of us came from Jefferson County, Ga. My half second cousin, Weyman Rooks from Albany, told me this a long, long time ago.
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I'm definitely cautious about this cure
Alex McRae
      I don't care who you are. If you're older than MTV you have a medical horror story about an incident when the cure was worse than the ailment. This isn't new. Doctors and patients have been doing this dance since the so-called "father of medicine" - Hippocrates - invented the waiting room and s...
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Shipp's Georgia
Rebranding rampant - will it work?
Bill Shipp
      Rebranding is the latest buzzword in political campaigns. Everywhere you look, some politician or politician's spouse is gearing up to play the rebranding game. They try to change who they are and reinvent what they've said. They're hoping voters have forgotten the old brand and will only remember...
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Beware the 'unfriendly skies' of politics
Matt Towery
      Weeks ago, our InsiderAdvantage survey indicated that the nation's ninth largest state, Georgia, with its 15 electoral votes, might be up for grabs in the 2008 presidential contest. In recent elections, the state has been a Republican lock.
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From our Files
Record temperature recorded for June
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO June 25, 1998 LESSIE Simmons celebrated her 100th birthday in Early County. EARLY County now has hundreds of new road signs put out by the road department to help give direction. STATE SEN. Harold Ragan was appointed Chair of the Senate Study Committee on Vocational Student Orga...
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