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Loran Smith is an active newspaper columnist, co-host of the popular Bulldog’s Tailgate Show, and he has authored more than 15 books.

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SMITH: A look at Elberton

1 day ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

BY LORAN SMITHThis is a place which has experienced considerable highlights through the years but remains one of those small towns with an appreciation for the past but faced with the challenge of remaining viable and keeping its traditional lifestyle intact. Elberton has a better opportunity than most such towns in that its vein of granite, the city’s economic lifeblood, is 35 miles long, six miles wide and two to three miles deep. It will sustain several generations henceforth.
CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Roland Garros - LaGrange Daily News

1 day ago | lagrangenews.com | Loran Smith

Published 9:15 am Friday, June 6, 2025 With the finals of the French Open coming up this weekend, I will arise on Saturday and embark to my basement office and salute the tricolor on my wall, insert a tape of accordion music into a cassette deck, open a bottle of Bordeaux, and placate my emotions with a flurry of sentimental reminiscing.
Roland Garros

3 days ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

\With the finals of the French Open coming up this weekend, I will arise on Saturday and embark to my basement office and salute the tricolor on my wall, insert a tape of accordion music into a cassette deck, open a bottle of Bordeaux, and placate my emotions with a flurry of sentimental reminiscing. I will close my eyes and listen for the Maurice Chevalier's suave voice singing, "I love Paris in the springtime." It will never leave my consciousness. I mimic him (or try) in the shower.
Loran Smith: Visiting Roland Garros

3 days ago | bulldawgillustrated.com | Loran Smith

h the finals of the French Open coming up this weekend, I will arise on Saturday and embark to my basement office and salute the tricolor on my wall, insert a tape of accordion music into a cassette deck, open a bottle of Bordeaux, and placate my emotions with a flurry of sentimental reminiscing. I will close my eyes and listen for the Maurice Chevalier’s suave voice singing, “I love Paris in the springtime.” It will never leave my consciousness. I mimic him (or try) in the shower.
SMITH: Elberton

4 days ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

This is a place which has experienced considerable highlights through the years but remains one of those small towns with an appreciation for the past but faced with the challenge of remaining viable and keeping its traditional lifestyle intact. Elberton has a better opportunity than most such towns in that its vein of granite, the city’s economic lifeblood, is 35 miles long, six miles wide and two to three miles deep. It will sustain several generations henceforth.
CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Elberton - LaGrange Daily News

1 week ago | lagrangenews.com | Loran Smith

Published 9:00 am Friday, May 30, 2025 This is a place which has experienced considerable highlights through the years but remains one of those small towns with an appreciation for the past but faced with the challenge of remaining viable and keeping its traditional lifestyle intact.
Loran Smith: On Brock Bowers

1 week ago | bulldawgillustrated.com | Loran Smith

Hear ye, hear ye. I’m a little frustrated that one of the greatest stories of the Kirby Smart era just played out and not enough heads were turned, not enough overt passion and exclamation moved front and center, and the chapel bell did not ring a single time. Brock Bowers graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in real estate from the Terry College of Business and everybody yawned.
Rose, Shoeless Joe

1 week ago | msgrnews.com | Loran Smith

The news about Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson will result in bringing about much verbiage for years to come. Some will always regret Commissioner Robert Manfred’s decision while others will proclaim that it was long overdue.None other than Ted Williams thought that Shoeless Joe was innocent of wrongdoing and made a case to have him reinstated before Ted passed away in 2002.T... To access content, please login or purchase a subscription.
Elberton

1 week ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

By Loran SmithELBERTON – This is a place which has experienced considerable highlights through the years but remains one of those small towns with an appreciation for the past but faced with the challenge of remaining viable and keeping its traditional lifestyle intact. Elberton has a better opportunity than most such towns in that its vein of granite, the city’s economic lifeblood, is 35 miles long, six miles wide and two to three miles deep. It will sustain several generations henceforth.
CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Rose, Shoeless Joe - LaGrange Daily News

2 weeks ago | lagrangenews.com | Loran Smith

Published 9:15 am Friday, May 23, 2025 The news about Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson will result in bringing about much verbiage for years to come.Some will always regret Commissioner Robert Manfred’s decision while others will proclaim that it was long overdue. None other than Ted Williams thought that Shoeless Joe was innocent of wrongdoing and made a case to have him reinstated before Ted passed away in 2002.