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VOTE FOR WENDELL! Editor, When the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation sent out a nationwide request for nominations of outstanding conservation volunteers for their 2006 Conservationist of the Year contest, the Altamaha Riverkeeper knew just whose story to send. We nominated Wendell Berryhill, a 67-year resident of Cochran, Ga., in Bleckley County. Wendell has now…

Not your ordinary dinner theatre

It’s a shame that Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie has become such a cliche in the public mind. Properly done, it’s a powerful and poignant display of minimalism by one of America’s greatest writers in any genre, and the Tybee Theatre Cafe players do a magnificent job of breathing fresh life into the old chestnut…

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City Notebook

LOCALS PROTEST IN COLUMBUS A group of local peace and justice activists attended this past weekend’s annual protest at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga. Local activist Robert Ludgate says this year’s event was attended by record crowds of protestors. “There were about 12,000 last year,” he says. “This year…

Bills mount, as does the rage of the powerless

A few mornings ago I woke up to a ticket tucked under my car’s windshield wipers. And it wasn’t even street-sweeping night. That everyone else on the street also had a ticket did not make me feel any better. The ticket was for facing my car in the wrong direction. For some reason the city…


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