Caleb Slinkard is the Executive Editor of the Georgia Trust for Local News and Managing Editor of the Macon Melody. He began his career in Texas as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, the Greenville Herald Banner, and two years later became the paper’s senior editor. Slinkard has run newspapers in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia and taught journalism and practicum courses at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mercer University. He was born in Bryan/College Station, Texas to Gary and Susan Slinkard. He has a twin brother, Joshua, and a younger brother, Nathan, as well as two nephews and a niece. He enjoys playing pickleball, chess, reading and hiking around Middle Georgia in his free time.
Josh is irreplaceable. But maybe we can all become a little bit more like him — more focused, more caring, more encouraging, more diligent. What a legacy that would be.
A Senate version of the legislation that would redesignate Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park as a full national park and create a federal preserve passed out of the Senate’s energy and natural resources committee Tuesday morning.