Perhaps its hokey to begin my first blog with this particular column, but it is also fitting. I am, after all, a reporter for North Augusta Today. To say anything other than that I love the city would be both biting the hand that feeds me and wholly untrue.
It was also the first of my stories to pop up under a Google search.
That said, I begin this blog as a showcase for my favorite stories as I travel my career path and as a forum for discussing my favorite aspects of my job.
I wrote sports features, most weeks, for The Augusta Chronicle for three years before moving to North Augusta Today in February 2007, and I certainly experienced memorable moments and have learned some interesting things. I will share them, in no particular order, along with links to the stories as they were published.
This column was written for NA Today's one year anniversary issue, which should have run in February 2008. For reasons I can't explain, our anniversary issue didn't actually publish until the end of April, to very little fanfare.
All year, residents told us what they love about North Augusta, whether we asked or not. Our staff thought it would be nice to pull quotes about North Augusta from some of our stories and re-run them. We also thought it would be a nice gesture from us to tell residents what we loved about their town, despite the fact that none of us actually lived there at the time. It was a fun piece for me to write, because I was able to use amounts of creativity and personal experience that are inappropriate in a news story.
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