Moultrie Scene turns its eyes to Observer’s sports team

Wayne Grandy was sports editor of The Moultrie Observer when I came to Moultrie at the end of 1997 as news editor. When Dwain Walden moved from being editor of the newspaper to being both editor and publisher in 2001, he moved into the former publisher’s office. Wayne got Dwain’s corner office and I moved into Wayne’s. When Wayne covered out-of-town football games and had to email the story back — or dictate it over the telephone — I was the one that got it into the Saturday morning paper. I wrote the story about Wayne’s retirement in 2016. He never really left, of course — he was still writing a column and covering the stories he wanted to cover — and when Covid-19 cost us our sports editor, he stepped up and has carried the load ever since. You might say he and I go back a ways. Connie Southwell mostly worked with Wayne, shooting photos to go with his sports stories. I saw her coming and going and spoke as she walked by. Sixteen years or so later, she’s my friend too.

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