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This year’s Worth County 4-H / FFA Swine Show was a great success for the following 4-H and FFA club members. Weight classes included: Class 1 Parker Weaver (4-H) 1st place, Luke Gwines (4-H) 2nd place, Chase Roberts (FFA) 3rd place and Luke Gwines (4-H) 4th place. Class 2 Luke Gwines (4-H) 1st place, Chase…
Monday evening, the Worth County Board of Education held their second appeal hearing for a student charged with making a bomb threat in a local school. In this second appeal case, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Worth County Middle School was allegedly overheard by two other students claiming that he was going to “blow up…
Middle School baseball coaches didn’t know if the team was going to be able to play the game on Monday March 4th because of the pending storm that was approaching. To help the Coaches with the safety of the boys, this little device was hung on the dugout fence. It’s called a “Thunderbolt Lightning Detector”….
Three of Worth County’s shining athletes, Livi King, Leah Sumner and Alayna Cowart helped Southern Pride Mini’s win the American Royale 2013 National Championship! Congratulations to all of them and their teammates, Loren O., Lauren M. Dejah G., May May, London D, Jenna D, Jenna G, Emily B, Rylie W, and Ellie B. These young…
On Monday, the boys returned to Pope Park after three games on the road to face the Miller County Pirates. Both teams scored a single run in the first and third innings to remain tied at 2-2 heading into the fourth. However, Miller scored another run in the fourth and another in the fifth, and…
The Middle School Rams A Team started off the first inning against Americs Sumter with three up and three down on Monday, March 4th. Hunter Goodwin went the distance with eight strikeouts, two walks and faced 15 batters. The Rams scored seven runs in the bottom of the second with Seth Newell leading off with…
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During last week’s game, Crisp scored a run in the first inning and two more in the third. Worth County Middle School B Team didn’t retaliate until the bottom of the third inning when Garrett Kelly crossed home plate for a single run. B Team held Crisp in the fourth inning, but the Rams exploded…
Worth County E911 Director Kannetha Clem attended a conference in Athens held by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and APCO (a global communications consultancy). During the three-day GECC (Georgia Emergency Communications Conference), Newtown, Connecticut E911 Director Maurine Will spoke publicly for the first time since that tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December…
Shelby Jean Daniel Withers, 76, of Lee County, GA, died March 9, 2013 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Melvin Slappy will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery. A native of Berrien County, GA, born to the late James B. and Bessie Ruth…
Talmadge James “Jamie” Dean, 40, of Sylvester, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Worth County. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M., Saturday, March 9, 2013, in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Terrell Ruis officiating. Burial will follow at Tift Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral…