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Battle of Potato Creek a great rivalry

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Thursday, August 28. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Just about everything that makes high school football great will be on display Friday night at Trojan Field in Barnesville when the Lamar County Trojans host the Pike County Pirates in the annual Battle of Potato Creek. [Full Story »]

Old school is best school for bad actors

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Wednesday, August 20. 2014

By Walter Geiger

It was Throwback Thursday August 14 in Lamar superior court and the members of the criminal underclass horde got a taste of what the courtroom experience used to be like and what it should be more like today.

Senior Judge E. Byron Smith was on the bench and old school courtroom decorum was on the menu. [Full Story »]

Football is nearly upon us

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Wednesday, August 13. 2014

By Walter Geiger

It may be true that, in Spring, a man’s fancy turns toward thoughts of love as the poet wrote but, in mid-August in the south, men and boys and lots of women and girls zero in on football.

And, like a beckoning oasis in the desert that is summer sports, football is upon us. [Full Story »]

Bad grammar, punctuation now the norm

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Thursday, August 7. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

I have written before about my sixth grade teacher, Otha Woodcock. Her classroom loomed at the end of a long hall at Heard School. We all had to pass through it on our way to junior high and we dreaded it.

Mrs. Woodcock was there to filter out those who could not properly speak and write the English language. One comma fault in a paper and you got an F. She read no further. If you did not learn, you would repeat sixth grade. It was that simple. [Full Story »]