We salute Dr. Murray
      We join with his colleagues, the thousands of patients he has helped through the years, and his countless friends in saluting Dr. B. Lamar Murray on the 50th anniversary of his medical practice here. Even though he modestly disagrees, the rest of us do see the occasion as a "big deal". 50 years o...
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: June 18, 1997 Burke County Tax Commissioner Cynthia McManus said that delinquent tax notices, some dating as far back as 1967, had been mailed out. She added that if the recipients didn't pay up within 30 days their names would be published in the newspaper.
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      There will be a reception this Saturday honoring Dr. B. Lamar Murray for his 50 years of medical service to the people of Burke County. The reception will be from 5-7 p.m. at the Augusta Technical College Community Room. It is a drop-in event, so come any time between the appointed hours and let...
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Steven Rice
MY NAME IS ISAAC
      The Georgia Press Association likes this column. Or at least they liked three nonsensical submissions to this column. Last weekend I was awarded first place for humorous column by the Georgia Press Association for weekly newspapers with a circulation over 5,000.
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Bill Shipp
WAS TERM LIMITS THE ANSWER?
      What if Newt Gingrich had stuck to his guns in 1994? What if his Republican revolutionaries had kept their word when they took control of Congress? Washington might be a different place now.
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Dixie Divas
AUNT BELLE MAKES UP HER MIND
      Years ago, when my friend's Aunt Belle quit her husband, the news spread through their small Alabama town like kudzu growing on a hot summer day. "Why who ever heard of any such?
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Lucy Adams
THE PRICE OF BUILDING CONFIDENCE
      In a diner in Northport, thumbing through The Crimson White, the University of Alabama newspaper, while enjoying my breakfast of biscuits smothered in sawmill gravy, an ad caught my attention.
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