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Americus celebrates Obama win Staff Reports AMERICUS - As Sen. Barack Obama's victory became a reality Election night, many blacks in Americus expressed their amazement as well as joy over their next president. "An African-American president, it was just something that I thought I would never see in my lifetime," said 55-year-old Dr. Cleveland Mann, an Americus dentist
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Sumter Regional leaders give away the Hospital Staff Reports The Americus and Sumter County Hospital Authority, at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 22, will conduct a public hearing at Sumter Bank & Trust regarding the terms of its lease and joint venture with Phoebe Putney to build a new Americus Hospital. But according to a precondition of the lease, the hospital will not be built in the same location as the former tornado-ravaged hospital, which was located off East Forsyth Street near downtown Americus. |
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NAACP violates same law, only Wright jailed Staff Reports AMERICUS — Local NAACP leader Matt Wright Jr. said he hopes his upcoming trial for standing too close to the voting polls with campaign signs will bring attention to the discrimination black candidates have faced in Sumter County. He said he looks forward to bringing all the players into court that were behind his arrest and that of another black candidate, but allowed Sumter County Commissioner Randy Howard to escape the same charge for breaking the same law twice. |
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Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) became the first Black president elect of the United States of America on November 4, 2008 |
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Call 229-924-0880 |
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President-Elect Barack Obama and the First Family |
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Dr. Brian Mann joins Mann Dental Care Staff Reports For 20 years, Dr. Cleveland Mann has been the lone dentist in his Americus practice and even the Albany office he opened five years ago. Now he has some new blood — well maybe the same blood. Dr. Brian Patrick Mann, 25, has joined his father at his dental practice. “It’s a dream to enter the profession and join him in practice,” said the younger Mann, whose recent work has included fillings, crowns, and bridges. As a child, Brian said he never seriously considered the dental field. He added he even considered becoming an astronaut before turning to dentistry. |
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The Americus Sumter Branch of the NAACP will be holding elections for branch officers on November 17, 2008 @ 7pm Allen Chapel AME |
