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Jeff Whitten NEW
Jeff Whitten is managing editor of the Bryan County News. - photo by File photo
This is how I recall it: In August 2009 I got a phone call from Lisa Freeman, then a teacher at Richmond Hill Middle School. She asked if I’d be interested in coming out to talk to her class about my job. I said sure, and she said she’d get back to me with details.
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Editor's Corner: Summer
Andrea Gutierrez new
In honor of the summer solstice (which was last Saturday, June 21st), here is a poem on the subject of the solstice and the invariable passage of time. Now if you’ll excuse me, I shall reapply my sunscreen for the third time today as I begin to water my mother’s plants in the backyard during this lovely record-breaking heat wave. As they say, blood is thicker than water...and Hawaiian Tropic.
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