Miss Mary Lou Toombs, portrayed by Jane Ellyn Hardy, is getting married, and you're all invited to the party at the Robert Toombs House, where it's April, 1853. Volunteer re-enactors in authentic period dress will portray characters from the Toombs and Alexander families and entertain guests at the... More...
The annual Washington-Wilkes Tour of Homes 2007 gets underway Saturday morning, March 31, when tour headquarters at the Washington Wilkes Elementary School on East Street (off East Robert Toombs Avenue) opens at 9 a.m. for registration and directions. More...
Representatives from GMK Associates Design-Build Division, of Columbia, S.C., will be at a called public meeting between the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners and the Wills Memorial Hospital Authority this morning to describe and explain a plan for the "regeneration" of the hospital. More...
Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School students who enter a technical college within two years of high school graduation may be eligible for college credit based on courses they took in high school. "Articulation" allows high school students to transfer credit for certain high school course w... More...
T yrekus (A.J.) Bowman, out standing Washington-Wilkes Tiger basketball player now playing for Augusta State College, was the subject of the sports photograph that won first place for Rainier Ehrhardth of The Augusta Chronicle in the Georgia Press Association Photo Clip Contest. The photogra... More...
TO THE EDITOR: I wish I could attend the County Commissioner's meeting concerning the renovation of the hospital, but right now I still work in Augusta. As a long time member of the community and faithful taxpayer, I am somewhat taken aback with the apparent reluctance of the County Commission t... More...
It was a slow week for the Washington Wilkes Tigers on the baseball diamond with only one game played since the last reporting. But that game marked the second region win for the home team giving them a 2-0 leg up as the part of the season that really counts gets started. (W-W played its third regi... More...
Graveside services for Hazel Louise Lindsey Landrum, 88, of Greene County were held Monday, March 26, 2007, at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Union Point with Rev. Leonard Ezell officiating. She died Saturday, March 24, at Greene Point Health Care Center. More...
Victory Baptist Church on the Newtown Road in Wilkes County will have a special month of super Sundays during April. Each Sunday will feature a special speaker for the services which are held at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. There will be special music presented during the week and a special message for thos... More...
Brett Walker (right), a junior at the University of Georgia majoring in Landscape Architecture, accepts the Wilkes County Cattlemen's Association scholarship from President Alan Bridges. The $500 presentation was made at the organization's March meeting. Brett is the daughter of Midge and Clay Walk... More...
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Cast nearly ready for opening night