The ongoing salmonella outbreak continues to generate bad news for Peanut Corporation of America whose Blakely peanut butter processing plant has been identified as the sole source of the outbreak. More...
By the end of this week most of the 100- plus employees being laid off at Georgia- Pacific will be gone. Most of the employees facing lay-off are completing the shutdown and lay-up of the No. 3 paper machine which should be wrapped up by the end of the week. More...
The first meetings to identify projects for Early County's Community of Opportunity took place Jan. 22 at Bainbridge College. Facilitator Jennie Bostwick of Camilla led the group through a series of exercises that whittled down a long list of local needs to focus on four areas that workshop participants identified as priorities in the community. More...
012809-01 STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION Three Notch Electric Membership Corporation is the recipient of Federal financial assistance from the Rural Electrification Administration, an agency of the U.S. More...
The Sons of Confederate Veterans placed headstone markers on six Early County Confederate veterans at several local cemeteries Jan. 17. At New Sardis Cemetery on Howard Landing Road, the graves of Washington Nobles and Warren Nobles were marked. More...
I have a friend from Ohio who loves to tease me about the small town where I grew up. She called a few weeks ago to tease some more. "I just saw one of those California milk commercials," she said. "The cow on that commercial has to be from your hometown. More...
2 Kings 4:8-17 As we read scripture, it is easy for us to forget that the people we meet through its pages are real people living in a real world. However, we must realize that these recorded accounts happened in ancient Middle Eastern society. Lives were usually lived with a minimum of travel, and were, thus, focused on their local geographic area. More...
Madine Layne, 83, of Albany and Richmond Hill, Ga., died Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, at Bryan County Health and Rehab Nursing Home in Richmond Hill. Mrs. Layne was born in Blakely to the late Chesley and Thelma Harrell Wood. More...
All business owners would appreciate a little extra help, especially in these hard economic times. Georgia agribusinesses and farmers have a team working for them at the Centers of Innovation for Agriculture. And, their help is free. More...
Clutter has a funny way of sneaking up on a person. One minute your desk or countertop is free of papers, and the next time you look you have a pile of items worthy of the recycling pail. Keeping your home or office organized is a task that involves yearround dedication. However, some people forget to keep up the cleaning streak and find clutter creeps in. More...
The Early County FFA Chapter took time from their afternoon Dec. 16, 2008, to pick up trash at Coheelee Creek. This community service project was something that the FFA members were proud to do. More...
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