Walmart to open this Wednesday
A new Walmart will open Wed., June 4, after a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7:30 a.m. The new store at 1102 E. Franklin St. is conveniently located and is open 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. It will provide Sylvester residents shopping convenience for their grocery and general merchandise needs. The store also…
Juanita L. Cook
Mrs. Juanita L. Cook, 90, of Sylvester died Monday June 2, 2014 at Sylvester Healthcare. The graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday June 4, 2014 at Kimball United Methodist Church Cemetery. Rev. Grady Morey will officiate. Mrs. Cook was born on April 19, 1924 in Arkansas to the late George and…
Barry Richards
Mr. Barry Richards, 61, of Worth County died Tuesday May 27, 2014 at his residence. The graveside service was held at 11 a.m. on Friday May 30, 2014 at Hillcrest Cemetery with full military honors. Dr. Ben Bush officiated. Pallbearers were active duty servicemen provided as part of the military honors. Mr. Richards was born…
Nadine Martin Bragg
Mrs. Nadine Martin Bragg, 84, of Albany, passed away Monday, May 12, 2014 while surrounded by her loving family. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 15, 2014 in the chapel of Hall and Hall Funeral Home. Rev. Chris E. Turner officiated with interment following at Floral Memory Gardens in Albany. Born December…
Billy Ray Brown
Billy Ray Brown, 55, of Poulan, Georgia died Saturday, May 31, 2014. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 11 a.m. with interment to follow in the Poulan Cemetery. Rev. Gordy Poole will officiate. He was born September 28, 1958 in Chillicothe, Ohio to the late Denver Ray Brown and Naomi Thompson…
Worth County 4-H Junior Team finishes 2nd at the State Modified Trap Event
Congratulations to the Junior Modified Trap Shotgun team of Worth County 4-H. They took 2nd Place team honors at the State Modified Trap Event at Rock Eagle 4-H Center on May 10, 2014. There were 1,149 participants at the state event this year. We are very proud of the Worth County 4-H Modified Trap Shotgun…
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Scholars and Athletes
Worth County Senior soccer players will be going on to compete at the college level this fall. Hunter Jenkins will be playing soccer with University of Charleston in West Virginia. Anthonie Iudiciani will play football at Reinhardt College in Atlanta. Sierra Henderson will play soccer at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville. Dale Pate will run…
Sinclair signs to Darton Soccer
Worth County High School senior Aaron Sinclair signed a letter of intent to play soccer with Darton State College last Monday afternoon. As the goal tender for the Rams, Sinclair has played a major role in the team’s success over the last four years. As a senior, Sinclair was named First Team All Region. In…
WCES Sinks the CRCT
Students of WCES who passed or exceeded the CRCT has a shoot off in their classrooms at PE to see who their representative would be for WCES’s Annual Sink the CRCT. One boy and one girl from each classroom them competed for a chance to take home a basketball goal and a basketball on Monday,…