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SMITH COLUMN: Arnold Harrison

ROSWELL – At a prosperous automobile dealership, everyone is in motion. Nothing is idling except for a smooth-running engine which has just been finely tuned ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 2:01 pm

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SMITH COLUMN: Sanford Outing

That first home football game — even with deplorable heat — nonetheless resonates with college football fans across the country. We can’t wait for football ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Thursday, August 31, 2023 10:30 am

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SMITH COLUMN: Remembering Sonny Seiler

At Sonny Seiler’s 90th birthday celebration back in February at the Oglethorpe Club there was the ultimate social.  His trio of doting daughters — Swann, ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Tuesday, August 29, 2023 2:27 pm

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SMITH COLUMN: Dell McGee

Few people have figured as prominently in Georgia’s ascent to the summit of college football as Dell McGee, the Bulldogs’ run game coordinator and running ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Thursday, August 17, 2023 9:30 am

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SMITH COLUMN: Jeff Treadway reflects on his Braves days

Jeff Treadway, second baseman for the Atlanta Braves during the worst-to-first era of the nineties, was a small-town boy who could only dream about spending ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, August 2, 2023 5:33 pm

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SMITH COLUMN: Irish Whiskey

There was this wife who was passionately into genealogy, which held absolutely no sway with her cynical husband. One day she came home and excitedly ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:30 am

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SMITH COLUMN: Harmon Wages

Hamon Wages was a football player and a very good one, often underrated, but always having a flair for the dramatic, turning heads and causing ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:30 pm

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SMITH COLUMN: D-Day Anniversary

We have just concluded the anniversary of the first week of the D-Day invasion.  Originally, the invasion was scheduled for June 5, 1944, but because ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Friday, June 9, 2023 9:30 am

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SMITH COLUMN: My hometown

What do you consider to be your hometown? Where you were born? Where you were raised? Where you have lived the longest? There are many cases ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Friday, June 2, 2023 9:30 am

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SMITH COLUMN: Fred Barber, the multi-faceted

This is a flashback to the times of Fred Barber, Georgia’s classic fullback of yesteryear, one who could have originated the time-honored football term, “Hardnosed.”  Read more

by Loran Smith, Saturday, May 27, 2023 10:30 am

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