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At 12:54 p.m. on January 18th, the Sylvester Police Department Drug Unit conducted a search warrant at 223 E. Lee Street in Sylvester. Approximately seven ounces of marijuana and $756.00 in cash were found and seized. Taken into custody was 51-year-old Cortez Marshall. Marshall lives at the residence and was arrested without incident. He has…
The vacant position for the Worth County Commissioners District 2 seat is still open for qualifying after some confusion regarding the qualification dates. Ken Hall, Matt Medders, and Dan Miller qualified last week for the March 18th election. However, on the last day of qualifying, it was determined that the dates to qualify advertised in…
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A very cold Monday night in Sylvester did not stop the room from being full at the work session of the mayor and council for the city of Sylvester. A special called meeting was held prior to the work session to discuss and consider for approval some business matters as well as the swearing in…
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Kelley Manufacturing Co. sponsors the Grand Door Prize Producers can fine-tune their farming operations with information gained at the 38th annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show on Jan. 16, 2014, at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Conference Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The show is sponsored by the Georgia Peanut Commission in cooperation…
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Worth County Board of Education held its first board meeting for the year last Thursday night. Kristen Garland, Nutrition Director for Worth County Schools presented the Community Eligibility Provision. Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is an alternative to collecting, approving, and verifying household eligibility applications for free and reduced price eligible students in high poverty local…
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Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert Cedrick Baker, III, age 37, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to serve 75 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence was handed down…
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Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Anthony David Olson, 53, ofMauk, Georgia, was sentenced on Thursday, January 9, 2014, to serve 55 months imprisonment for the crimes of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax return. Olson’s codefendant, Patrick Edward Keefe, 34, of Dayville,…
The 2014 Miss University of Georgia Scholarship Pageant will be held on Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Fine Arts Building. Sponsored by the Student Government Association, the pageant is an official preliminary pageant for the Miss America Organization. Seventeen UGA students will compete for more than $3,000 in scholarships and…
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Margaret Jones Public Library recently received a generous grant from Mitchell EMC’s Operation Round Up Program. Through Operation Round Up, your monthly electric bill is “rounded” up to the next dollar. The extra change goes to a fund administered by the Mitchell Electric Charitable Fund, a nonprofit organization, to help worthwhile projects and programs in…
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It has turned cold in Sylvester, extremely cold that is. Everyone is preparing for a hard freeze and making plans to stay warm. The National Weather Service predicts a hard freeze and wind chill advisories for a few days as temperatures are expected to plummet in southwest Georgia. Low temps have prompted residents to prepare…