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July 23, 2008
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Bryant, Murkerson runoff
Sheriff's race to be decided August 5
Early County voters will get a second chance to decide the sheriff's race when Sheriff Jimmie Murkerson and challenger Donald Bryant meet head-to-head in the Aug. 5 General Primary run-off election. Murkerson edged Bryant in the threeway July 15 General Primary vote count with 1,343 votes to Brya... More...
Back-to-School Sales Tax Holidays
July 31 through August 3
By Sharon Omahen, University of Georgia Special to the News

Chances are your child will need clothes, school supplies and maybe even a computer before the school year rolls around. To lessen the budgetary blow, purchase these items during Georgia's Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday. The holiday will be July 31 - Aug. 3. During this tax-free window certain ... More...

Arielle who? Just ask your kids who Arielle Kebbel is!

A lot of young girls have followed their dreams to Hollywood. Arielle Kebbel did, too, driving two days with her mom from their home in Florida. Arielle's dream came true. Shortly after the trip to Los Angeles she landed a role on the comedy-drama series, The Gilmore Girls. More...

 Other News
•July 15, 2008 General Primary Results
Primary Runoff - Aug. 5
REGISTERED VOTERS TOTAL VOTES CAST SHERIFF TAX COMMISSIONER CORONER COMMISSION DISTRICT 2 More...
•Grand jury returns 204 true bills
•Blakely Senior Center
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 Community Calendar
•HERE & THERE this WEEK
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 DFACS board meeting, 10 a.m. BIRTHDAY: Miracle Jones ANNIVERSARY: Jimmy & Tonya Heath THURSDAY, JULY 24 ROTARY CLUB, noon, Blakely Town & Country Club ALCOHOLICS Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., Holy Family Catholic Church social hall. Call 229- 308-1736 for more info. More...
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 Editorials
•Other Voices
The good old days
I don't like to be one of those folks who harks back to the good old days, as if the current days are somehow shameful or repugnant. I'm not even old enough to remember the good old days. But last week, I stumbled across something from the 1950s - years before I was born - that has me completel... More...
•Political Cartoon
•Mumbles
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 Religion
•Sunday School Lesson
Accept Jesus as the promised messiah
Matthew 16:13-23 Leaders in many areas of society seem to depend heavily upon opinion polls. An opinion is a belief not based on absolute certainty or positive knowledge, but on what seems to be true, valid or probable to one's own mind; judgment. More...
•From the Pulpit
•Southside has revival
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 Obituaries
•Mary Perkins
Salesperson
Mary Exie Hortman Perkins, 86, of Blakely died Saturday, July 19, 2008, at Early Memorial Nursing Home. Mrs. Perkins was born in Quitman County, Ga. Nov. 11, 1921, to the late Oliver Jackson Hortman and Exie Virginia Mitchell Hortman. More...
•John "Red" Lane
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 Agriculture
•Giant wasps not after humans
The scary two-and-ahalf inch wasps hovering over Julie Barkley's flowerbeds drove the Athens, Ga., resident inside and to her computer. "I have three children, and we avoid the outdoors because not only of the size of this insect but of the vicious appearance, too," she said. More...
•Children bloom in school gardens
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 Society
•Davis - Burch
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Michael Davis of Albany announce the engagement of their daughter, Shannon Virginia Davis, to Matthew Charlie Burch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jarrell Burch of Newton. Miss Davis is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anthony Lahl of Midland, the late Mr. and Mrs. Louie ... More...
•BIRTH
•Warr and Wilson celebrate
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 Campus
•ECHS senior portraits rescheduled
Seniors portraits for the Early County High School class of 2009 will be taken Wednesday, July 23 and Thursday, July 24. Those who signed up should have received an appointment reminder in the mail. The photographs will be made in the school cafeteria. More...
•Stay safe on the school bus
•Supplies under $20 make list
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