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In baseball and in life, keep it ‘between the lines’

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Monday, June 10. 2013

I took part in the United Bank softball game this past weekend and had a great time with many co-workers and friends.

Playing softball is an extension of baseball from my days as a youngster. It’s in my blood and always will be. I passed this trait right on down to my sons. They play on a very competitive softball team together now. [Full story »]

Geiger’s Counter: The pendulum sometimes swings too far

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Monday, June 3. 2013

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Someone - I think it was a college professor - once explained to me that society’s collective view on things swings from side-to-side like a pendulum but never stays in equipoise for long. Equipoise being the state of being equally balanced in favor of both sides of an issue or argument. [Full story »]

The human side of news coverage

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Monday, May 27. 2013

Nothing, nothing, nothing is harder for reporters than covering stories involving the deaths of children.

If you have watched the television news from Moore, Oklahoma, in the last week or so, you know that very few reporters -- male or female -- could speak without breaking down when they told of children trapped under the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School. We now know that there were more children elsewhere, and safe, than was first believed. We are told now that “only” nine children died. [Full story »]

Lifsey Springs News: Friendship

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Monday, May 20. 2013

By Rosalee King

What a beautiful week the Lord has given us. This is a good start for my column. Recipe for friendship: make 2-3 phone calls per week, give 2 cups of kindness, 1 letter a month, 4 shopping Saturdays. Mix carefully, take turns stirring. Heap with hugs and lace together. Sweeten with love and sprinkle with a smile. Bake until memories turn golden. [Full story »]

Relay for Life: Winning the battle against cancer

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Monday, May 13. 2013

My name is Wendy Stanley. I’d like to tell you why the Relay For Life Event is so important to me. I have several friends who have fought and are winning the battle against cancer and I have participated in Relay for Life in honor of them in the past. [Full story »]

The rain 'round here falls everywhere

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Wednesday, May 8. 2013

By Walter Geiger

Colonel Pickering constantly schooled Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s lyric, ‘The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain’.

It is the hook that holds the musical and later movie adaptation together. [Full story »]

Geiger’s Counter: Lots of smoke and mirrors in TV production

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Monday, April 29. 2013

I got to observe television production up close and personal last week and it was an eye-opening experience.

On Wednesday, a Discovery ID crew was in our office to interview me for an upcoming episode of Deadly Affairs. The crew consisted of a light man, sound man, producer and assistant producer. Both producers were females. The assistant was a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design. [Full story »]

Menu is extensive but main course is fun

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Tuesday, April 23. 2013

By Walter Geiger

In just its ninth year, the Barnesville BBQ & Blues Festival has grown into one of the premiere events of its type in the southeast and nationally.

Approximately 50 cook teams will be in town this week. Their campers and smokers will start rolling in on Thursday night and, by Friday morning, the air will be filled with the aroma of pork, chicken and brisket prepared as it was intended. [Full story »]

Rare find reveals unfathomable hardship

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Wednesday, April 17. 2013

When people die, family members are left with the task of going through their stuff. Such has been the case with our family following the death of Laura’s father, Quimby Melton Jr. [Full story »]

Celebrate: Tax Freedom Day has arrived

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Sunday, April 14. 2013

If you work, you have reason to celebrate this week.

On average, Georgians who work have earned enough money to pay off their share of the tax burden at the federal, state and local levels as of April 9. So, we celebrate Tax Freedom Day. [Full story »]

Geiger's Counter: When reporters become part of the story

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Monday, March 18. 2013

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It is rare, but occasionally, reporters become part of the story or stories they are covering.

The first example that springs to mind is that of Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal. They basically created ‘investigative reporting’ as they dug into the Watergate burglary and the scandalous coverup that followed it. They and their sources became part of the story and some actually were subpoenaed to give testimony that ultimately forced President Richard Nixon out of the White House. [Full story »]

Why we spring forward and fall back

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Tuesday, March 12. 2013

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As I sipped coffee and slowly brought my brain to life on the second morning of the Daylight Savings Time period, I began pondering the whole notion of messing with our clocks - both inner and outer. [Full story »]

Geiger's Counter: Two golden opportunities

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Monday, March 4. 2013

Saturday was not a great day for soccer along the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Duluth.

It was freezing. A biting wind was blowing in off the river and the occasional snow flake or frozen rain drop hit the bill of my cap. [Full story »]

Geiger's Counter: Atlanta has finally done something right

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Wednesday, February 27. 2013

Decades ago, a pending trip to Atlanta brought excitement. Back in the 1970s, Atlanta was electric. Now, not so much.

I’m older. Atlanta has changed. [Full story »]