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Ghanaian artist William Kwamena-Poh is a mostly self-taught painter whose work is familiar to many in Savannah, where he’s been a resident since 1995. He joined me on this week’s episode of Art on the Air to discuss how he came to be an artist and his current exhibition “The Journey Is Mine: Chapter One,” at Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center.

Read the full column on DoSavannah.com

Nick Saban speaks to the media ahead of the Mississippi State game

Erie Mayor Joe Schember joined Erie Times-News reporter Kevin Flowers to discuss the city's 2020 budget proposal after taking a proposed property tax increase off the table.

A melee involving Browns defensive end Myles Garrett and Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph is all anyone will remember from Cleveland's 21-7 win on Thursday Night Football. The Browns entered the night with a chance to enter the AFC playoff conversation for the first time since the offseason. Instead, we're left with the latest example of the NFL's most dysfunctional and poorly-led franchise.

Ross Bradley, vice president of development for TDK, a Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based firm that's leading the development of the Vintage Destin apartment project, discusses the rental rates and future tenants of the new apartment community.

In this week's Worcester Culture Watch, Victor Infante and Bill Shaner discuss Mass Majority’s infusion of PAC money into local elections, and then Victor and Richard Duckett chat about the great variety of choral music in our immediate future. All this, and music by Way Up South!

A Florida Time reader who experienced Hurricane Michael feels forgotten as she reads coverage on Hurricane Andrew. 

Dig a little deeper, learn a little more with these resources:

EK tackles the strongest storm to strike our home state, Hurricane Andrew.: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190620/florida-history-why-did-most-powerful-hurricane-known-to-florida-kill-so-few

Scroll through this "Remembering 1992" photo gallery: https://www.theledger.com/photogallery/lk/20180803/photogallery/803009996/PH/1

EK writes a book about the nation's second-deadliest hurricane.: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Great-Florida-Hurricane/dp/0786711469

“Reader Rewind” is a digital radio show featuring the personal histories of Floridians from around the state -- and even the country. The goal is simple: Florida doesn’t just belong to historian and Florida Time columnist Eliot Kleinberg. It belongs to everyone: natives, transplants and vacationers alike.

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The Oklahoman's Cameron Jourdan welcomes Cashion coach Lynn Shackelford to talk about the Wildcats' season and his team heading into the playoffs. Cameron then discusses his picks for the state championships and the big OSSAA announcement on Wednesday.

PANAMA CITY – Did you know that the News Herald’s photography department has been writing articles lately? Well we have and in this week’s Shooting the Shot we talk about it.

The News Herald has been short staffed for a few months. As we lost reporter after reporter, chief photographer Patti Blake and I took on more responsibility. For a few weeks the majority of news coming out of our newsroom was produced by the paper’s two photographers.

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 I covered a time capsule ceremony at Gulf Coast State College. The college planted a time capsule in 1993 that was supposed to be unearthed in April of this year. Because of extensive repairs around the campus, the ceremony had to be delayed. Before opening the 25-year-old PVC tube full of treasures, the college showed what will go into the next time capsule. In 25 years the college will open a carbon fiber box full of stories, pictures and mementos from Hurricane Michael. You can read the story here. 

Patti Blake wrote a story at a spay and neuter event at Operation Spay Bay. The animal castration charity processed nearly 90 cats for A Hope for Santa Rosa County which does not have the facilities for that many animals. She photographed as veterinarians did small surgeries on kittens and took care of them as they woke up after being anesthetized. In her article she goes over the days events and the importance of spaying and neutering pets. 

Both Patti Blake and I did study writing in school, but we have spent our careers building our photography skills. These last few months have been a challenge working in a medium that we have not spent the time to becoming experts in. One thing that we both agreed we appreciated is that we liked having total ownership of stories that mater to us the most. 

In the coming weeks readers can look forward to reading more by our newest reporters Tony Mixon and Jacqueline Lindsay.

https://www.newsherald.com/news/20191105/gulf-coast-state-college-opens-90s-era-time-capsule

https://www.newsherald.com/news/20191106/panama-city-clinic-spays-and-neuters-nearly-90-cats-in-day

Colin Kaepernick plans to audition for NFL teams on Saturday in a private workout arranged by the league in Atlanta, but it doesn't seem like a legitimate opportunity. Teams bring free agents in for individual workouts all the time. A hastily planned, out-of-the-blue pro day for a 32-year-old free agent quarterback is a significant departure from the norm.