Months of planning and fund-raising will come together Friday night at 7 o'clock as the Third Annual Wilkes County Relay for Life steps off at the Washington-Wilkes Parks and Recreation track off Lexington Avenue. More...
Governor Sonny Perdue will join state and local leaders Monday morning south of Washington to cut the ribbon on the Wilkes Pre-release Center, making it Georgia's newest minimum security prison. More...
It was close to heaven as you'll get on The Square - folks enjoying fine art while talking with the artists, and both the sound of hot jazz and the smell of great cooking filled the spring air. More...
The Student Health and Physical Fitness Act started out "requiring" an increase in physical education in Georgia schools but ended up as only "encouraging" the increase. Do you think the state's students are getting enough physical activity at school?" Do you think an increase should be required rat More...
TO THE EDITOR: Since my arrival in WashingtonWilkes in 1970, this community has been like an extended family. It opened its heart and its arms to me. No one could ask for a more warm, friendlier, generous place to raise children and to work. More...
The Washington-Wilkes Tigers closed out the regular baseball season with a pair of convincing wins during the past week but they weren't convincing enough to break the team out of a three-way tie for second place in Region 7-A and a disappointing fourth-place berth in the first round of the state pl More...
In May 1889, the adult Sunday School teacher at New Ford Baptist Church, G.B. Blakey, was inspired to suggest that the Elbert, Lincoln, and Wilkes County Sunday School Union be established. Impressed with the idea, the Pastor of Gibson Grove, Rev. C. H. Holloway invited Blakey, the New Ford Sunday S More...
Jillian Diana Stewart of Washington and Robert Daniel Thornton of Crawfordville were united in marriage in an impressive double-ring ceremony Saturday, April 8, at two o'clock in the afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Washington. Rev. Chris Townsend of Washington officiated. More...
Washington: a Tree City for 21 years