The cheerleaders and band joined a crowd of fans Thursday on Court Square to recognize the community's student-athletes and pump up the spirits for the coming high school sports season. More...
The Early County Board of Education held its final tax hearing Tuesday morning before a called meeting to set the millage rate for county school taxes. The board voted to set the millage rate at 15 mills. Supt. More...
Climatologists have been predicting that it will take some tropical rains to break the doldrums of the ongoing drought. With that thought in mind, all eyes in Southwest Georgia are on tropical storm Fay which threatened to become a hurricane as she made her way across Key West Tuesday. More...
About that unidentified FFA'er in the recent 1950s group photo of Blakely High FFA'ers during a visit to WTVY... the News received a call that the man was Melvin Jackson. More...
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20 BIRTHDAYS: Patricia Davis, Lexa Sasser, Harold W. Still, Christy Middleton THURSDAY, AUG. 21 ROTARY CLUB, noon, Blakely Town & Country Club COUNTY Planning Commission, 7 p.m., Tax Assessor's Office AL-ANON, 7:30 p.m. More...
I have always claimed that Glory, the black and white springer spaniel who lives at my house, would eat just about anything, especially if I made her think it was a treat. There are, of course, a few things it makes sense that a dog would attempt to eat. A dog shall not live by Dog Chow alone, I suppose. More...
James 4:1-12 When outside forces attack the church, these pressures drive the members closer together, making a stronger bond. However, when internal forces began to act within the "body"(1 Corinthians 12:27), these forces cause the unit to explode, thus greatly wounding, or even destroying, the group. More...
Major J.B. Jones Sr., 78, of Blakely died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Mr. Jones was born in Blakely Sept. 8, 1929, to the late Major Jones and Annie B. McNeil Jones. He was a member of Arms of Faith Missionary Baptist Church and sang with the Friendly Five. More...
Mr. and Mrs. Glynn Floyd of Blakely are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Ashley Nicole Floyd, to Charles Micah Ward, son of Angie Livesay and the late Joe Livesay of Ft. Myers, Fla., and Mickey Ward of Costa Rica. More...
The Early County Lady Cats traveled to Fitzgerald Saturday, Aug. 16 to play in the Lady Canes Softball Classic. The tournament included teams from Early County, Wilcox County, Hawkinsville, Turner County, Fitzgerald, Brooks County, Bleckely County and Baconton. More...
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