Preparations are nearly complete for Mule Days at Callaway Plantation, the twenty-sixth annual celebration of times gone by set for Friday, October 13 and Saturday October 14. More...
Applications are being taken for the Grassroots Arts Program, which can provide funding for arts and other non-profit organizations in Wilkes County. More...
TO THE EDITOR: I am a proud resident in the Town of Tignall and serve on the City Council. Mayor Richard Gammon, council members Leon Aycock, Charles Bradley, Albert Huyck, and Thomas Jackson, are also proud residents in the Town of Tignall. More...
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets really turned some heads last week by thumping Virginia Tech on the road. Clemson scored over 50 points for the third time this season. The War Eagles found out what it is like to be in a pit with fired-up Gamecocks. More...
1. Before the Chicago White Sox in 2005, name the last team to win the World Series without beating the New York Yankees at some point in the playoffs. More...
Antorres Ulysses Jennings, 21, has been sentenced to prison for life plus 15 years for his attack on a Tignall teen and her mother in April 2005. More...
More than 60 Washington-Wilkes leaders met Monday night to hear about a new state pilot program that's designed to help rural communities help themselves to gain the tools and resources they need to make an economic turnaround. More...
A number of questions have arisen concerning the $1,000 Essay Contest which has been advertised in recent issues of this newspaper. Readers want to know if the contest is for real and who is behind it. More...
Two boys -- part of a crowd of thousands-- watch a pickup driver try to make a full pull at Saturday's Young Farmers Truck and Tractor Pull at Aonia Motor Pass. More...
Funeral services for Aldora Cynthia Cook, 79, of Washington were held Saturday, September 30, 2006, at McLendon Memorial Funeral Home, Washington, with Rev. Robert Crawford officiating. Burial was in City West Cemetery, Washington. More...
Funeral services for H.E. Turner, 92, of Athens were held Sunday, October 1, 2006, at Bernstein Funereal Home in Athens with burial at Evergreen Memorial Park. More...
Funeral services for Jamie LaForrest "Skip" Aldridge, 72, of Panama City Beach, Fla., were held Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at Cornerstone Family Fellowship Church in Panama City with Pastor Gregory Westermeyer officiating. More...
Dr. Carol Crowe Carraco, (left) was welcomed by Washington Civil War Round Table officers Carol Cartledge and President Claibourne Darden Monday night for her talk to the Round Table on the Orphan Brigade. Dr. More...
