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Selected Works: Parking Tradition Ending

For Beth Newman and her family, this Masters Week is the last time for a decades-long tradition.

Since she was 5, the Augusta native has been angling cars onto her parents’ Heath Drive yard near Augusta National Golf Club, allowing tournament patrons to park for a charge.

(Originally published April 5, 2006, in The Augusta Chronicle)

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Selected Works: BRAC’s over, now what?

As Fort Gordon celebrates its 65th anniversary this year, its boosters have plenty to celebrate about its future. After surviving the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round, the post is set to see new construction, bringing more jobs to the area and new military and civilian personnel.

(Originally published at The Augusta Chronicle, Jan. 15, 2006, https://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/2006/01/15/met_43593.shtml.)

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Selected Works: Veterans get special care at new Augusta, Ga., rehabilitation unit

Originally published in The Augusta Chronicle, June 23, 2004. Jun. 23–For Petty Officer 1st Class Lindon Haworth, rehabilitation has been a long journey — from a mortar attack in Iraq back home to an Augusta Veterans Affairs hospital. With a Bible in his left hand, the naval reservist sits in his room at the VA’s […]

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Earning Her Stars

Maj. Gen. Janet Hicks, the first woman to command Fort Gordon and a soldier who first joined the Army in 1975, is promoted to a two-star general rank as she leads a military post that is the head of the Army Signal Corps. (The Augusta Chronicle, June 3, 2004)