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One day eight years ago, the cast-iron rollers in Augusta's last paper mill stopped rolling in the middle of the run. The absentee owners -- ''from away,'' as they say here -- sent word that it was merely a pause; the reassuring hum of spinning rollers would return in a few weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that Willamette Industries Inc., a maker of office paper, agreed to buy a mill in Port Wentworth, Georgia from the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Significance of the agreement.

A judge in Atlanta ruled Friday that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter must continue to catalog the personal papers of her mother, Coretta Scott King, that are being sought by feuding factions of the King family, The Associated Press reported. The Rev. Bernice King and her brother Martin Luther King III were sued by their brother Dexter King, who wants them to turn over papers for a biography of their mother that the Penguin Group was planning to publish; the book deal, valued at $1.4 million, fell through in October when the King siblings missed a deadline to provide those papers to the book's author, Barbara Reynolds. Once the cataloging of Coretta Scott King's possessions is completed, a judge will rule whether her papers are the property of the Martin Luther King estate, which Dexter King controls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the dismissal of thousands of employees of Georgia-Pacific Corp., maker of Brawny paper towels and a variety of paper and lumber products to save production costs in Atlanta, Georgia.

The article presents information related to the arrival of African-American novelist Alice Walker's archive at the Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. According to school officials, Walker, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, will get her archive placed at the university. According to Rudolph Byrd, a friend of Walker, Walker's papers provide an individual with a sense of the process of creating fiction and poetry.

The article reports that a collection of 10,000 papers, books and other items that belonged to theologian Martin Luther King Jr. will go on public display in January 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The collection includes historical gems. Some of the mundane items include canceled checks, college transcripts, and a tan briefcase.

The Atlanta City Council has cleared the way for a civil and human rights museum to pay off $11.5 million on a loan so it can acquire display rights to thousands of documents of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Private fund-raising had slowed efforts in a bad economy to pay off the original $32 million loan. The council voted 12 to 0 to approve a plan to pay off the loan with the help of millions of dollars in bonds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs that the collection of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. will be given to Morehouse College in Georgia, his alma mater and will not be sold at any auction.

The article reports that Republican leader Butch Miller in Georgia has approved an initiative to limit voting. Topics mentioned include the prohibition of the use of drop boxes for absentee voters for security purposes, the advantage of voting restriction to the victory of U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and the use of paper ballot instead of touch-screen voting.

Reports that the University of Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball team won its game against the Purdue University Boilermakers in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1995-1996 season. Performances of the two teams during the game.

Presents information on the possible transfer of civil rights documents and artifacts from the King Center, an archive and institute in Atlanta, Georgia to two universities. Information on the King Center; Universities listed; What the King Center archive includes; Comments from Gary Krull, a spokesman for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The greatest Christmas gift Randal Lewis ever received was the one he knew was coming. Last Christmas Eve, as Lewis and his wife, Melanie, opened the mail, they sucked in their breath when they saw the thick envelope with a Georgia return address. The invitation to play in the Masters is ''like a wedding invitation,'' Melanie Lewis said, with flowery green calligraphy crisscrossing a thick ivory paper stock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- At a paper-plate luncheon for lawyers and judges on Friday, Nathan Deal, the Republican nominee for governor of Georgia, searched for a metaphor that would resonate. He wanted to describe how it feels to run a major campaign, especially amid revelations last week that he is facing more than $5 million of debt and may need to sell his house to avoid bankruptcy or foreclosure. ''What's it like?'' he asked rhetorically, standing in a century-old courtroom in this Atlanta suburb. ''It's like being in a trial that is contentious, doesn't have weekends off and lasts for over a year and a half.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This family-run, weekday-only restaurant specializing in organic dishes opened last July in the lobby of a commercial building just off Syntagma Square. But you'll forget about the narrow restaurant's meager decor when you take your first bite of the salmon baked in paper and topped with finely chopped fennel, leek, dill and celery root, in a delicate reduction sauce made from spinach and a tree resin called mastika (12 euros, or about $17 at $1.40 to the euro). Konstantinos Siopidis, the 38-year-old chef, created the dish five years ago for his wife, Despina Kouklinou, 33, who now runs the restaurant while her husband, her mother and her younger brother do the cooking. At the time, Mr. Siopidis was running the kitchen of an upscale Athenian restaurant, but he was continually frustrated when the owner insisted that he use canned goods and pre-prepared ingredients and serve food that was no longer at its peak of freshness. So the young couple began planning what would become Mellilotos. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Until Thursday evening, nothing in Bob Collier's 62 years had stirred in him the slightest desire to take a stand -- about anything -- in public. He skipped the antiwar protests of his college years, took a job as a regional salesman of paper and chemical products, and built for himself a quiet life of family and church (and hunting and fishing) in his rural hometown in southwest Georgia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The effects of Russia's first foreign war as a capitalist country rippled Tuesday through the Moscow stock markets, which dipped to their lowest level since 2006. The loss of billions of dollars in paper value is confronting the Kremlin with a dimension to its geopolitical posturing that never existed during the cold war, even as Russia seemed to be consolidating its gains after the Georgia conflict. The RTS stock market fell 6.1 percent on Tuesday after President Dmitri A. Medvedev recognized two separatist regions in Georgia. The sell-off was deepened by grim warnings from Western leaders of unspecified diplomatic or economic retaliation for the move. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children have been sued by the institution that their mother founded and their brother heads, the latest chapter in a family drama that has become increasingly public. The chairman and chief operating officer of the King Center, Dexter King, accuses his siblings, Bernice King and Martin Luther King III, of establishing foundations that compete with the center and using the center for personal gain. The suit says the foundations conflict with their duties on the center's board of directors. It also accuses both siblings of ''demonstrating bad faith, being stubbornly litigious, and causing the King Center unnecessary trouble and expense'' and seeks an undisclosed amount of money. Bernice and Martin Luther King III sued Dexter King in July to force him to open the books of their father's estate, which sold a collection of his papers and books in 2006 for $32 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Coca-Cola Co. will donate two-and-a-half acres of land for the proposed civil rights museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The land is located near the downtown district of the city and is estimated to be worth over $8 million. The exhibit at the museum will include the papers of civil right leader Martin Luther King.

Comments on the papers of Ted Hughes that were collected by the library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The growing interest in Hughes in the late 1990s; His book `Birthday Letters'; Hughes' relationship with poet and author Sylvia Plath; His death in 1998; How Plath's death in 1963 affected Hughes.