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Updating those football projections

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Wednesday, October 29. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Three weeks ago, I took a look at the status of the high school and college football teams most folks around here care the most about. I analyzed performances to that point and made some predictions. I hit on some and missed badly on others. So, here is an update. [Full Story »]

And you think the government is here to help?

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Thursday, October 23. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

It is a sad fact that a higher percentage of Americans than ever before are dependent upon some sort of government assistance in order to muddle through life.

Republicans argue Democrats work towards higher numbers on the welfare rolls in order to guarantee votes and there is no question liberals feel as if government has a better handle on what we need and want and we should just let Washington handle it all. [Full Story »]

Some things just mystify me

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Thursday, October 16. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

Daily, it seems, I read something in the multiple newspapers i peruse that mystifies me. Most often, it seems political correctness is culpable for my state of confusion. Some examples. [Full Story »]

Football analysis as season hits its midpoint

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Tuesday, October 7. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Those of us who love football wait impatiently for it all year long. Baseball, once the national pastime, has been reduced to a space filler between gridiron seasons. We watch it casually but do not obsess over it though having a winning team in Atlanta would help. Once it arrives, football season goes by much too fast. We have hit the midpoint for high school teams and most college squads will hit their midpoint this weekend.

So, where are our local favorites at this juncture? [Full Story »]

It's difficult to lose an achiever

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Thursday, October 2. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

Some months back, I found myself on the scene where the body of a man had been found in a rundown house. I got there quickly but, upon my arrival, the street outside the shack was already full of onlookers. As the police and coroner did their work, the assemblage in the streets grew to number about 200. It was shortly after noon on a Monday, a workday. I asked a police officer securing the scene why all the hangers- on were not at work. [Full Story »]

Oklahoma beheading: Denying the undeniable..

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Wednesday, October 1. 2014

The Augusta Chronicle

We agree with those who say, reflectively, that the shocking Oklahoma beheading late last week was not an act of terrorism.

But we differ with those who say, reflexively, that it had nothing to do with Islam. [Full Story »]

Some low class moves by once proud MP

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Tuesday, September 16. 2014

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By Walter Geiger

I was shocked – shocked, I say – Friday night when the once proud Mary Persons Bulldogs hid behind their lightning detector and some ridiculous GHSA rules to steal a win from the Lamar County Trojans in Forsyth. [Full Story »]

Au revoir My Mama

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Wednesday, September 10. 2014

By Laura Geiger

My Mama, May Melton, was a true Southern lady. She exuded faith, beauty, grace, kindness, courage, spirit and love. When she left this mortal earth at 91, she had taught me how to live and also how to die.

Most in life, she loved and cherished my Daddy. For 69 years they were true to the vows they took June 30, 1943 before they passed under the crossed sabers in their full military wedding at Fort Riley, Kansas. When the love of her life died 19 months ago, Mama covered the enormous hole in her heart and showed us how to bravely ‘carry on’ just as he had instructed me to do. [Full Story »]

Americans fighting for ISIS are traitors

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Thursday, September 4. 2014

By Walter Geiger

If you want to see the political correctness spin machine at work, read the strangely sparse news stories about the two Americans who have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria. If you have been living in a cave, ISIS is the radical islamic force that has burst onto the terror scene with fervor and delights in crucifying Christian males and beheading Christian children. [Full Story »]

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 »]

Walking on hallowed ground

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Friday, July 25. 2014

By Walter Geiger

Though I visited Fort Pulaski as a youngster growing up in Savannah and have passed the entrance to it countless times since on the way to Tybee Island, I had forgotten much of its history. So, on a recent beach trip and with three 14-year-old girls in tow, I went back.

It was amazing. [Full Story »]

Rock & Roll tribute to Kenny Green

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Tuesday, July 22. 2014

By Mike Ruffin

Editor’s note: This is the eulogy the Rev. Michael Ruffin, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fitzgerald, gave at Ken Green’s memorial service Sunday, July 13 at New Life Baptist Church, Barnesville.

I don’t remember exactly when I first got to know Kenny but I remember the circumstances.

It was during the great dispersion that took place in the 1960s when Carter’s shut down its mill village and half the town had to move.

Most of my family members who lived in the village took up residence on Greenwood Street, including my grandparents who moved into the house numbered 555, just two doors down from the house where Kenny’s family lived. Before too long Kenny and I and other neighborhood boys were playing baseball every chance we had in that big sloping yard between their house and the railroad track. We always hit downhill. [Full Story »]