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Tuesday, November 24
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Grassroot efforts to save Milledgeville Waldenbooks apparently in vain
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Wounded soldier recalls deadly day at Fort Hood
Twelve feet.
That’s the distance that separated a local soldier from Nidal Malik Hasan, the
man who gunned down 13 people and wounded 30 more at Fort Hood Army
Base in Texas earlier this month.
Private First Class James Armstrong – a 2001 Baldwin High graduate – was
sitting in an Army waiting room when Hasan opened fire around 2:30 p.m. on
Nov. 4. Armstrong, shot twice during the rampage, can still close his eyes
and see the incident clear–as–day.
“Everything that happened that day
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Huge game at Braves Field this Friday night
One down. Four more to go?
Baldwin High blasted Northside-Columbus on Friday night, winning 40-7 in
round one of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs.
The slope, however, becomes much more slippery this Friday, as the
defending state champion Cairo Syrupmakers come to town. The
Syrupmakers were a 42-7 winner in their first-round matchup against
Woodland High. A large contingent of fans is expected to make the trip from
Cairo, which is located in extreme south Georgia and just north of
Tallahassee, Fl.
The Syrupmakers are extremely
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Remembering the "old" Fifth Street
Fifth Street isn’t exactly the nicest neighborhood in Baldwin County.
Many of the homes on Fifth Street are in disrepair, while many of its residents
live near the poverty line. Fifth Street took a tragic nosedive in the mid
1980s, a victim of the crack-cocaine epidemic that stole the innocence of
many American neighborhoods. In a sense, Fifth Street has never landed from
that nosedive and has never recovered.
Prior to the mid ’80s, however, Fifth Street was a fairly charming, family-
oriented neighborhood. The
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New GMC prep facility should sparkle
By this time next year, students and faculty at Georgia Military College prep
should have a brand new home.
Construction is continuing at a brisk pace around GMC’s new prep school
facility, which checks in at three stories and 75,000-plus square feet. School
officials hope to begin moving into the building by May, which would provide
ample time before the first day of school in August.
GMC officials offered a walking tour of the new facility to local media outlets
on Tuesday morning. Gen. Peter Boylan, seated in his familiar
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Baldwin High Fine Arts Center construction continues
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Wife honors late husband's wish by restoring old Ford
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