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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 ...
Loran Smith, Author at LaGrange Daily News - Page 2 of 22
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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.”
by Loran Smith, Saturday, May 27, 2023 10:30 am
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SMITH COLUMN: Chris Davis
Seeing someone flourish in business which reflects that they are truly happy with their occupation makes you realize the ultimate fulfillment beyond family compatibility is ...