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Georgia’s dove hunting season opens Saturday at 12:01 p.m. The dove opener traditionally kicks off the fall hunting season.

“Dove season is a fantastic reason to introduce someone new to hunting. It brings a lot of joy to participants and is a great kick off to the fall hunting season,” said John W. Bowers, of DNR’s game management. “Georgia has more than 50 public dove fields, including opportunities on private land made available to the public through a new USDA habitat incentive program.”

The 2017-2018 dove seasons are Sept. 2-17, Oct. 14-Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 - Jan. 15. Shooting hours are noon until sunset on opening day (Sept. 2) and one-half hour before sunrise to sunset for the remainder of the season dates.

Dove hunters 16 years of age and older must possess a Georgia hunting license and a Georgia migratory bird stamp. This stamp is required for all migratory bird hunters (doves, ducks, geese, woodcock, snipe, coots, rails, or gallinules), even if a hunting license is not required. Use of the stamp is how Georgia participates in the federal harvest information program. Some licenses allow the holder to get the stamp at no cost. Stamps are only valid for a single season (March to February). Hunters must obtain a new stamp each season.
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4 chicken breasts (can be frozen)⠀
1/2c low sodium soy sauce ⠀
1/2c honey ⠀
1/4c rice vinegar ⠀
2t onion powder ⠀
2 garlic cloves, minced⠀
1/4t pepper ⠀
3/4t ground ginger ⠀
1/4c water ⠀
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Put chicken in crock pot. Mix all sauce ingredients in a 1 quart mixing bowl and pour over the chicken. Cook on low for 4 to 5 hours and then shred your chicken with a hand mixer for amazing shredding capabilities! ⠀
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If you do this in your instant pot use the manual setting and cook for 40 minutes on high pressure. ⠀
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This is the perfect mix of sweet and salty! So delish!! ⠀

Buggy Days is just around the corner and the 2017 commemorative t-shirt pays homage to Barnesville’s conversion to Wind Gap this summer for filming of HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects”.


The shirt was designed by local artist Andrew Patrick Henry who also did the Wind Gap murals downtown.

The John Flath era officially dawns Friday when the Lamar County Trojans host the Northeast Raiders of Macon at Summers Field. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

The Raiders are also breaking in a new coach in Ashley Harden, formerly of Twiggs County.

LC went 6-5 last season before getting walloped by Chattooga in the first round of the playoffs. Northeast went 2-8.

Gov. Nathan Deal announced Rinnai, a home appliances manufacturer, will create 150 jobs and invest $69 million with the completion of the company’s first U.S. manufacturing facility in Griffin. Rinnai expects to create a total of 300 jobs with this new facility over the next 10 years. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

Two state agencies have begun criminal investigations into allegations of fraud with regard to government funds allocated for summer feeding programs here in Lamar County and surrounding communities.

Those allegations involve April Smith-Scott of Barnesville and her firm A.D. Smith Community Services. [Full Story »] 

Herald Gazette subscribers can read the transcript of Bobbie Jo Sumner's fateful interview with Craig Cooper and Al Moltrum that led to her arrest inside.

The statement was a big issue in her trial that led to a 20-year prison sentence. Sumner was found guilty of first degree vehicular homicide, hit and run and four counts of making false statements in connection with the 2013 death of Alexandra Noelle Desir. [Full Story »]