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Bill Kirby is the Metro Editor for The Augusta Chronicle. Write to him at The Augusta Chronicle, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903. Call (706) 823-3344 or send e-mail.
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Latest Column

Braving the heat is easier when it's for a good cause
Web-posted 07/03/09
In less than 24 hours I will be racing through downtown Atlanta for the July Fourth Peachtree Road Race -- 10 kilometers of July heat and 50,000 competitors.

Previous Columns

Helping someone move is the ultimate test of manliness
Web-posted 06/30/09
Over the weekend a friend asked me to help him move. It's been years since anyone asked me to help with a move. Decades, really.
Summertime just isn 't what it used to be
Web-posted 06/28/09
Sometimes I look down my neighborhood street and wonder who stole summer.
Postcards pile up as summer travel kicks into high gear
Web-posted 06/26/09
I was busy at work the other afternoon when Leslie and Eric Olig, of Augusta, telephoned my desk to inform me they were calling from Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Will run marathon for good cause
Web-posted 06/23/09
Do you have a charity that needs publicity?
This dad's not in the driver's seat anymore
Web-posted 06/21/09
This morning marks my 15th Father's Day, and you know what that means -- somebody at my house now has a learner's permit to drive.
Can't blame the voter for trying to be right
Web-posted 06/19/09
One person actually mistook Tuesday's Richmond County sales tax election as an opportunity to vote in Columbia County.
Sunglasses fashion comes round again
Web-posted 06/16/09
Do you have new sunglasses this summer? Well, if you want to look stylish, they should be round. Think "Harry Potter" or swimming goggles. I know this, not because I am stylish, but because The New York Times had a really long article about it.
Augusta has a hard time remembering its birthday
Web-posted 06/14/09
In a letter dated June 14, 1736, Georgia founder James Oglethorpe ordered authorities to lay out a town up here on the biggest, flattest, driest patch of land along the Savannah River between the rapids and the ocean.
Traveling this year is for optimists
Web-posted 06/12/09
I don't have to tell you gas prices keep going up.
Local man's heroism in life represents thousands more
Web-posted 06/09/09
Let us take a moment this morning to honor duty and heroism and a life quietly, but proudly, lived. I speak of John Perry, of Clarks Hill, S.C., who will be buried today with military honors in Sunset Hill Cemetery.
You never know who you're helping by taking vacation
Web-posted 06/07/09
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
While on vacation this summer, don't forget to write
Web-posted 06/05/09
Some of you have begun that long road of summer travels and are sharing your postcards.



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