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Ethan Fowler

About Ethan

Ethan Fowler has 17 years of daily and weekly newspaper experience covering news, features and sports, as well as being an editor the last 14 years. He has won several writing awards over the years in Washington state, Virginia and Georgia, including four in 2010 for his education beat writing. 

In January 2012, Fowler accepted an education reporter position with the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas.

One of those 2010 awards Fowler won was the Georgia School Boards Association's Print Media Beacon Award in which he was nominated by the Lee County Board of Education for his education writing with The Albany Herald. A 2009 story Fowler wrote caused a Leesburg, Ga., state representative, Ed Rynders, to introduce legislation based on his award-winning investigative journalism. The story uncovered an Albany High School teacher had falsified his Howard University transcript to gain employment with the Dougherty County School System. In 2011, Fowler won second-place in the Freedom of Information category in the Georgia Associated Press News Excellence Awards competition for his 2010 coverage of the controversial naming of Dougherty County School System's new superintendent.

Fowler was paid by the Review & Herald Publishing Association in 2009 to co-author a book, "Brushed Back: The Story of Trevor Bullock," with his wife, Mardene. The book detailed the real life of a top minor league pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization and his Christian faith. Fowler and his wife have two young boys and recently moved to Marietta from Albany, Ga., after his wife accepted a nursing position at WellStar Kennestone Hospital.

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Sheldon Bradley

12:25 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012

Hi Ethan,

I had some basketball news that I think some may want to know about. Please get back with me if you find this news worthy.

My name is Sheldon Bradley and I'm a big time basketball fan/player and a multimedia developer by day (produced several pieces for Acworth Patch too). I grow up in Memphis TN, where basketball is everything. And I remember someone donating a portable basketball goal to the kids in my neighborhood. We played on that goal like there was no tomorrow. And because we wanted to play against the best ballers we could find; we would take the goal apart and walk it to other neighborhoods to compete. Probably not the smartest thing to do, but I miss those day of competing just for the sake of being known as the best on the block. So that was my whole motivation for creating League For Basketball. I want young people to get out, compete, discover new places to play, and interact with one another using the tools that we have available today. So I spent about a year designing and developing the app. And so League For Basketball (IOS) became a reality for me this past December.

I'm right here in Acworth and I want to world to know that "Hey, big ideas can come from small town folk."

Please contact me if you want more information.
sheldon@leaguemobileapps.com
Thanks,

Sheldon

Debbie Conway Gehrlich

11:40 am on Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Hi Ethan,
In 1974 Wheeler High School had 450+ graduates who did not get to have a "normal" graduation. With such a large number of students, the only place to have it was on the football field. Once we sat down, a huge storm came and everyone got soaked - diplomas were thrown and that was how it ended. With the help of the principal of Wheeler, we are going to have a re-graduation ceremony June 2, 2012. We need help. If you think you may can help us please email me at dlgehrlich@yahoo.com.

r. williams II

3:00 pm on Sunday, February 13, 2011

Ethan,

We'd love having you come to our Town Hall Meeting featuring Post 3, CCSD BOE member, David L. Morgan for the first time EVER in Powder Springs this Saturday, 2/19, at 1PM at the "Coach" George E. Ford Center here in Powder Springs. Details are here on "patch..." in the calendar section, etc. Please do come. We expect a good crowd and robust discourse.