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🏈 SPRING PRACTICE MAY BE OVER, BUT THE WORK IS JUST BEGINNING IN CEDARTOWN. 🏈

With spring football now in the rearview mirror, the Bulldogs have turned their attention to the long, hot days of summer conditioning and preparation for the 2026 season.

In an exclusive interview, Cedartown head coach Tommy Atha reflects on the lessons learned from 2025, the resilience of his team, the addition of new coaches, and why he believes this year's Bulldogs will look much different when they take the field this fall.

From the weight room to the practice field, the road to Friday nights starts now.

🐾 Read our full feature on Coach Atha's vision for the program and what lies ahead for Cedartown Football.

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Good afternoon, Cedartown!

The vendor application window for the 2026 Holloway Hunnypot Festival is OPEN. If you create original, handmade art or craft items, this festival might interest you. We particularly love to have vendors that sell hand painted artwork, photographs, pottery, woodwork, leatherworks and artisan baked goods -- just to name a few 🙂

The online application can be found here:
https://pci.jotform.com/form/261518917098165

The festival will take place on September 26 at Big Spring Park from 10 to 3 p.m.

This annual festival honors the late Sterling Holloway, a Cedartown native made famous by serving as the voice behind Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh. The festival had its inaugural debut in 2019 as part of several new events the City created. The event features a Sterling Holloway exhibit and a Pooh Stick (wooden honey dipper) race down the Big Spring overflow channel. The festival is a small-scale event, limited to 30 vendors, and typically attracts 1,000+ people. Our vendors are varied and offer everything from local honey to beautiful hand-painted artwork.

Cedartown’s Sterling Holloway served as the original voice to Disney’s wildly popular honey-loving bear. Holloway was born on January 14 in 1905 and grew up at 301 South College Street. Holloway was a natural at entertaining. He attended public school in Cedartown before being enrolled at Georgia Military Academy in College Park.

Eager to pursue his lifelong ambition of becoming an actor, Holloway dropped out of GMA and convinced his parents to let him enroll at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

At age 16, Holloway was the youngest student ever accepted for enrollment.His classmates included Spencer Tracey, Pat O’Brien and Georgia Neece– who was later appointed by President Truman as the first woman Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. You may not know that Holloway was the first Hollywood actor drafted into World War II. His number came up in a drawing held by Treasury Secretary Morganthau in October of 1940.Holloway co-wrote a variety show for the Army–”Hey Rookie!”–which paid for a recreation facility for G.I.s.

His show played in Los Angeles theaters for nine months before moving to the allied front lines in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Holloway and his troupe traveled 60,000 miles while exposed to bombing raids, machine gun fire, snipers and mortar rounds. Holloway was formally mustered out of the Army with a regimental retreat review, “an honor unparalleled in military history for an unwounded, undecorated soldier.”

Following the war, Holloway moved into television work, appearing regularly as Waldo in episodes of “The Life of Riley.” He also appeared as a guest star on “The Untouchables,” “Superman,” “Hazel,” “Andy Griffith,” “The Twilight zone,” “Gilligan’s Island” and dozens of other shows.(information sourced from IMDB.com and through residents and avid Holloway historian Donnie Jarrell)