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By U.S. REP. AUSTIN SCOTT, R-Tifton: Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:57 AM
The holiday season is a special time when Georgians can come together to enjoy good food, footballand spend time with family and friends. It’s also a time to enjoy the great outdoors. Growing up in South Georgia instilled in me a passion for the outdoors and a desire to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to share that same feeling.
 Many of my fondest memories involve hunting and fishing in our beautiful country. However, decades of population relocation to urban areas has made it more difficult for many Americans to regularly participate in sportsmen’s activities. |
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By Frank Sayles Jr. / Tifton Grapevine: Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 1:52 PM
Remember that scene in the film “It’s a Wonderful Life” when
Jimmy Stewart finds himself in an alternate universe of downtown “Pottersville”?
Stewart’s previous charming town of Bedford Falls is now a place of tawdry
lighted signs on every building. Well, Tifton is no Pottersville, at least not yet. But Tifton
City Council made a bad decision Monday night that could have a long-term,
far-reaching effect on the kind of town we have in the future.
Yes, I am a member of City Council; and yes, I was involved
in the issue. |
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By FRANK SAYLES JR.: Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:57 AM
The day dawned bright and frosty in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 1977. Although the sun was shining, the temperature was in the teens and a recent snowfall had left mounds of ice and snow in yards and alongside roads. As I headed to an early morning religious service at the Lincoln Memorial, a radio commercial noted a closeout sale at "Jerry's Ford," a local car dealership; on this day President Gerald Fordwould be succeeded by Jimmy Carter |
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By State Rep. Penny Houston, R-Nashville: Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2016 8:32 PM
By REP. PENNY HOUSTON
 On November 8, voters in Georgia will be asked a question that has the potential to change K-12 education in our state for an entire generation of children. Question 1 on the ballot will read, “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student achievement?”
YES – I am voting for this amendment. I believe it is my obligation to speak up for children whose future does not look bright and stop the “pipeline” to poverty and prison many Georgia students face due to becoming school drop outs. |
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Frank Sayles Jr.: Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 12:59 PM
"Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." ~ Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Frank Sayles Jr.
Summer is a time of possibilities. The days are longer; the skies are brighter; the world is warmer.
The hot South Georgia sun hugs us closely, its warm, whispery breath on our necks. A hazy veil falls upon the land and shrouds our lazy days of longing amid, what Joni Mitchell calls, "the hissing of summer lawns.
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Frank Sayles Jr. / Tifton Grapevine: Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:34 AM
This has been sent to The Tifton Gazette as a Letter to the Editor by Tifton Grapevine Publisher Frank Sayles Jr.:
 Last Sunday's Tifton Gazette left me scratching my
head. I was the subject of a front-page article that claimed my publishing an
article in last Friday's Tifton Grapevine put me "in question"
because of my role as a city councilman, a position I had held for two weeks at
the time.
The Tifton Grapevine is a local electronic
newspaper with thousands of email subscribers. |
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Frank Sayles Jr. / Tifton Grapevine: Posted on Monday, June 22, 2015 11:50 AM
Charleston, S.C., is perhaps the most genteel city in the nation. I spent the greater part of a decade there working as a reporter and an editor at the Charleston newspaper.
I came to know Charleston well, along with the surrounding towns and counties.  Several weeks ago, there were national headlines about an unarmed man who was shot in the back and killed while running from a policeman -- which occurred in the city of North Charleston, not Charleston. North Charleston is the rougher, unkempt cousin to adjacent Charleston. |
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Frank Sayles Jr. / Tifton Grapevine: Posted on Friday, February 07, 2014 11:40 AM
As you probably know, this Sunday, Feb. 9, marks 50 years since The Beatles made their American television debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
For us Baby Boomers, that Sunday night was a watershed moment in our collective history; we could actually feel the world change. Music became different; fashion became different; and we began to see the black-and-white world differently. Soon enough, there would be a phantasmagoric explosion of color, and hope, and possibility. |
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Frank Sayles Jr.: Posted on Friday, December 06, 2013 11:34 AM
Tifton Mayor Jamie Cater responds to Friday's Tifton Grapevine Weekender report on this week's City Council meeting.
Read the mayor's letter below, unedited. Our response to him follows the letter: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank,
I want you to know that if you will check your own film, you will note I gave Julie a long time during the discussion phase of the voting phase, much more than I normally would have as keeping the meeting from "bogging down" is the responsibility of the Chair. |
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