Loran Smith

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) during Georgia’s game against Auburn on Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) during Georgia’s game against Auburn on Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

Smith: Well-rounded tight end Brock Bowers becoming Georgia legend

Loran Smith
Thursday, October 5, 2023
If you talk with Brock Bowers about his passions for hunting and fishing and know nothing about his background, you might take him for a native Georgian. He could hail from Americus, Valdosta, or Albany. Or perhaps the hills of Habersham.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Contour Coke

Loran Smith
Thursday, October 5, 2023
In those days when I started observing what was going on around me, I noticed that there were several people in small towns who had enviable status in their communities. There was the doctor and the dentist, naturally.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Georgia grad Pat Dye made huge impact at Auburn

News Staff
Thursday, September 28, 2023
A journey over to Auburn always brings about reflections of times spent with Pat Dye on his farm near Notasulga, Alabama, which is a little less than 13 miles from the campus where he spent almost a dozen years as head football coach and athletic director.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Remembering Jim Jordan

Loran Smith
Thursday, September 28, 2023
A close friend from my high school years passed away in the last fortnight, and I’m ‘hurtin'. With a busy schedule, almost overwhelming in the fall, I hardly have had time to grieve, but his smiling face has appeared often in my consciousness as I have gone about my daily routine lately.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Scattering cotton

Loran Smith
Thursday, September 14, 2023
This time of the year, I always relate everything to hurricanes, football, cotton picking, and the 1951 playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Washington (not DC)

Loran Smith
Thursday, September 7, 2023
It would be difficult to find a more attractive small town than the seat of Wilkes County which was once the site of Georgia’s capital. Not many know that factoid. In those Revolutionary War days, its name was “Heard’s Fort.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Coast-to-coast arrivals

Loran Smith
Thursday, August 31, 2023
With the semester system in place at most colleges across the country, most incoming freshmen have now settled in, beginning a journey that should be enhanced by their campus experience.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: The small town of Blakely

Loran Smith
Thursday, August 24, 2023
If you don’t have culinary affection for fried quail and peanuts, you might not enjoy spending time in the town of Blakely, population 5,000.
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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Enjoying Eastman

Loran Smith
Thursday, August 17, 2023
It takes three hours – maybe a little more, depending on traffic between Madison and Eatonton where the widening of U. S. 441 into four lanes sometimes brings traffic to a standstill – to get to Eastman, the seat of Dodge County. That’s where I lay my head when the sun goes down.
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