The theme of last week's 21st annual Georgia Peanut Tour was "Quality Is Our Future," said Bob Kemerait, who chaired the Georgia Peanut Commission committee that organized this year's peanut tour. "If you look around the world, the U.S. is not the largest producer of peanuts," said Kemerait, a pr... More...
A federal judge in Rome, Ga., upheld Georgia's voter ID law last week, ruling that the ID requirement did not unduly or significantly burden the right to vote. Voters who do not have a valid photo ID can get a free voter ID card to be used for voting identification purposes only at their local vo... More...
At their Sept. 4 meeting, the Blakely City Council took the first step on the road to complying with provisions of a new state law relating to verifying new worker eligibility. The verification is required by the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act which was adopted by the Georgia Gene... More...
082207-01 NOTICE STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF EARLY TO ALL DEBTORS AND CREDITORS OF ANNA MAE WILLIAMS: All debtors and creditors of ANNA MAE WILLIAMS, deceased, late of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, owning property in Early County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render an account of their dema... More...
City of Blakely shop foreman, Larry Lee Allen, 60, died Saturday, Sept. 8 after seemingly suffering a heart attack and crashing his Harley-Davidson Trike on Highway 39. Allen was traveling north on Hwy. 39 around 7:15 p.m. when his bike veered off the road onto a private drive where it then struc... More...
A lot has been said this week about TNT's decision to continue showing the episodes of "Law & Order" that feature a character played by actor Fred Thompson, who now says he's running for president. More...
Genesis 15:5, 6; 18:11-14a; 21:1-8 In any study of the beginning, it is natural to turn thoughts to individual groups. How did this culture begin? Who was the one person from whom a specific group sprang? Of all the family groups upon the earth, more individuals trace their ancestry to the man... More...
Retired Waver Jones Thompson Melton, 86, of Ft. Gaines died Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007, at Early Memorial Nursing Home. Mrs. Melton was born in Early County Feb. 9, 1921, to Walter Sanders Jones and Mary Elizabeth Davis Jones. She was a retired teacher's aide from the Early County School System, a m... More...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced sign-up dates for the new Livestock Compensation Program, Livestock Indemnity Program and Crop Disaster Program. The three ad hoc disaster programs provide benefits to farmers and ranchers who suffered losses caused by natural disasters in recent ... More...
Amy Grace King and Larry Phillip Wiley Jr. were united in marriage Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. at Auburn United Methodist Founder's Chapel in Auburn, Ala. Rev. John Fox performed the ceremony. More...
The Early County Bobcats exploded for 28 second quarter points to blow open a tight game and defeat the Miller County Pirates 36-17 Friday night at Standifer Field. The Bobcats are now 2-0 while the Pirates are 0- 2. Miller took the Early lead on a Chris Williams 32-yard fieldgoal at the 8:47 mar... More...
Candice Vickers, a firstyear teacher at Early County Elementary School, has been selected to receive a $1,000 grant from Georgia Power. In this program, nominations are received from each of the public colleges and universities in Georgia that have schools of education. More...
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