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A sad, sad day
Mitch Clarke
      Uga VI is dead, and I don't feel so good myself. I had to paraphrase that line from Lewis Grizzard because, well, it pretty accurately describes how I feel as I write this Saturday afternoon. If I have to explain to you who Uga is or why so many grown men are sad at the death of a dog, you're pr...
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Thoughts on rats and races
Billy Fleming
      I smell a rat! And, I think we've been had. Let me put it another way... in my opinion, the Longleaf permit appeal didn't end up in Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore's court by chance. Can't state that as fact, but I have a very strong suspicion, and I am tending to follow my gut feeling on this ...
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The second time around
Brenda Wall
      Evan will soon hit the six month mark. He's past that bobble head stage and his smiles are more about emotion than gas. I like that part. To see a baby smile when you walk in the room lights up a day. He wants to take off. Put him down on a blanket and he's like a bug turned on its back, all four...
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Dog daze in the south again
Alex McRae
      It happens every summer in the south. Sooner or later, the last breezes die away, the temperature and humidity race to see who can outdo the other, and every living creature realizes there's nothing to do but find a shady spot and hang on until it's over.
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Shipp's Georgia
Georgia gets new TV station
Bill Shipp
      This may be an answer to Georgia's woes. The University of Georgia has decided to spend a relatively paltry $1.44 million to buy a full-fledged commercial TV station and set it up in Athens. The purpose of acquiring WNEG-Channel 32 of Toccoa is to train communication students in TV and to make mo...
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From our Files
Blakely Rotary Club celebrates seventh birthday
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO July 2, 1998 THE SKIES of Standifer Field will be illuminated with a fireworks specular tonight, July 2 with activities beginning at 8 p.m.
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