COLUMN: ‘Be a man,’ says lawmaker

Wednesday, November 12. 2008
He said it. He really did say it. Standing before the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning, Sen. Ralph Hudgens threw down the gauntlet. Speaking through the media to controversial state House Speaker Glenn Richardson, Hudgens challenged Richardson to “be a man.” [Full Story »] 

COLUMN: Rundown on key local political races

Wednesday, July 9. 2008
Here’s the skinny on some three county-wide races in next week’s Primary Elections:

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Herald wins award for sports story

Thursday, June 26. 2008
The sports section of The Jackson Herald was honored by the Georgia Sports Writers Association during its annual contest.

Mainstreet News reporter Brandon Reed took first place in the Best Local Feature Story category for his story “Jefferson track gone but not forgotten.”

The story recounted the history of the Jackson County Speedway, a half-mile racetrack located along the current Damon Gause Bypass, which operated from 1947 to the early 1950s.

Pioneer NASCAR racer Swayne Pritchett, of Baldwin, lost his life at the track in May of 1948.

The story was also selected as the winner of the Division III Furman Bisher Sweepstakes Award for best story in classification.

Judges for this year’s contest included Mark Blaudschun, sports writer for The Boston Globe and former president of the Football Writers Association of America; Clyde Bolton, former sports writer with The Birmingham News; Corky Simpson, sports writer with The Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen and Dick Rosetta, former sports writer with The Salt Lake City Tribune.

COLUMN:Treasure hunt technology

Wednesday, May 28. 2008
It’s like hide and seek or, better yet, a treasure hunt via technology.
I hadn’t heard of it — shows you how up on the latest technology trends I am — but I got a call the other day from someone asking me if I had tried out Geocaching.
Huh?
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COLUMN: My minute’s worth of words

Wednesday, May 14. 2008
BY MIKE BUFFINGTON, EDITOR
Read this quickly. I’ve only got a minute. The speech Nazis are out and about and I can’t talk very long. If I do, they’ll slap me silly.
It’s the Jackson County Board of Education on the prowl, counting words, running a stopwatch to make sure I don’t say too much and that what I do say is done quickly.
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