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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…
The funeral services for Mr. William James “Jim” Adair of Thomaston will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 in the Chapel of Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home in Thomaston. Rev. Derrick Keeter and Rev. Wayne Collins will officiate. Mr. Adair passed away on March 7, 2013 at Brightmoor Hospice in Griffin. Mr. Adair was a graduate…
Sylvester firefighters were called to a structure fire at 903 W. Willingham Street at approximately 6:07 a.m. last Friday. According to SFD Chief Chris Duncan, the home belongs to former Sylvester volunteer firefighter Otis Daniels. While Daniels’ daughter was transported to the hospital for evaluation, Duncan says everyone at the residence is fine. While the…
Mrs. Ellen Holt Broadaway, 64, of Warwick died Wednesday March 6, 2013 at her residence. The funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday March 8, 2013 at the Liberty Baptist Church in Pinehurst, GA with interment to follow in the Church Cemetery with Rev. Phillip Garrett officiating. Mrs. Broadaway was born on…
The Worth County Board of Education held an appeal hearing last Monday evening to reconsider the punishment for a fifth grade student accused of perpetrating the second bomb threat at Worth County Elementary School. The ten-year-old was arrested in January after allegedly writing a bomb threat on the bathroom wall at WCES, then reporting the…
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Mrs. Vedia Carolyn Etheredge, 76, of Albany, formerly of Anderson City, Ga. died Saturday March 2, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday March 6, 2013 at Evergreen Baptist Church with interment to follow in the Kimball Cemetery with Rev. Ronald Barrett officiating. Mrs. Etheredge…