MACON — The Times’ story of two sisters being reunited with a younger sister who their mother sold for drugs in 1988 won Story of the Year honors Saturday at the 2012 Georgia Associated Press Association awards luncheon. “Finally Found,” written by the newspaper’s metro editor Shannon Casas, also won first place for feature writing. Casas picked up a third first-place award for graphics and illustrations for her illustration of lake levels and rainfall over the last five years, part of the paper’s “Our Lake in Crisis” series.
Times wins AP honor for top story
Paper takes 10 1st-place awards at annual state convention