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May 8, 2008  RSS feed
I Do! I Do! opens at theater tonight
"Together, forever" sing Agnes and Michael (Gail and Tom Duggan) as they sing their wedding vows in I Do! I Do! The play at The Bolton Lunceford Playhouse runs May 8, 9, 10 at 8:00 p.m. and May 11 at 3:00 p.m. For reservations call 706-678-09582. More...
Wilkes County candidates qualify for July 15 Ga. General Primary Election

A dozen Wilkes County candidates have qualified for the General Primary election in July, Supervisor of Elections Judge Jim Burton said, during the qualifying period that began Monday, April 28, and closed Friday, May 2. More...

Spring Cruise-In returns to The Square

Crowds of admirers will again swarm around beautiful machines at Saturday's Spring Cruise-In on The Square. The Cruise-In is open to antiques, hot rods, muscle cars and collectibles, and there's a $7 registration fee. Admission is free to the public, and there will be food, prizes, and music from Tommy Landrum's Cruzin' to the Oldies. Memory Lane Cruisers uses the profitsfrom the Cruise-Ins to donate to various causes in the county. More...

DDA sets Open House Tuesday, May 20 at Chamber

In an effort to document the opinions of downtown shoppers, business owners, visitors, and Washington Wilkes residents, Washington's Downtown Development Agency is holding an Open House May 20. The drop-in Open House, set at the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce officeon Tuesday, May 20, from 4-6 p.m. More...


 News
• article has image Club learns about butterflies
Karen Stubbs, president of the Iris Garden Club of Washington (right), was the guest speaker for the Washington Kiwanis Club on Tuesday, May 6. Stubbs presented a program on butterflies in which she used a very colorful PowerPoint presentation of pictures. She explained the butterfly's habitat and showed several examples of butterflies native to Georgia - pictures she had taken herself. She explained and showed examples of the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult. Stubbs told members that while the insect is beautiful, it is also beneficialin that it serves as a pollinator. Herb Stackhouse was the program host for the day. More...
• article has image W-WPS students hit a home run
• White Rock Baptist to hold annual revival May 19-21 at 7 p.m.
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 The Office Cat
• article has image 'Red River Valley' in Chinese
B onnie Allison and Renee Brown are home from an 11-day trip to Shanghai, China. Bonnie and husband Gene lived in Shanghai for several years and Bonnie says she would walk through the local park where she would see people involved in various activities. More...
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 Opinions
• article has image Just a Thought
What are we going to do with the kids? That's the question being raised all over the country with seemingly no real answer. Several television shows had devoted their entire program to try to analyze and solve the problems of teenage violence and the senseless killings that have gone on in America's schools -- kids killing kids. More...
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• article has image Vox Pop
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 Letters
• 2008 Relay for Life exceeds much more than monetary goals
TO THE EDITOR: As event coordinator and a cancer survivor, I am overwhelmed at the enormous support that the people of Washington-Wilkes demonstrated for our 2008 Relay For Life. More...
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 Sports
• article has image Tigers to face top-ranked Wesleyan Friday
The way the state baseball playoff brackets are paired, it didn't matter what the Washington-Wilkes Tigers did in last week's Region 8-AA seeding games, they were going to have to play a Top 10 team in the first round no matter what. But as it happened, W-W lost both of its game last Friday to end up the No. 4 seed facing the Region 6-AA No. More...
• article has image Basketball alumni game slated May 31 to put Tigers on Tigers
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 Obituaries
• K.D. Stokes
Funeral services for K.D. Stokes, 91, of Washington were held Saturday, May 3, 2008, at Heard's Chapel Baptist Church in Wilkes County with Rev. Henry T. Butler officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. He died April 25 in Wills Memorial Hospital, Washington. More...
• Clyde Jerrell Sales
• Anna Schroeder Brown
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 Worship
• Come Worship with us
Baha'i Faith 116 S Elijah Clark Dr Washington, GA 30673 (706)678-4341 Beaverdam Baptist Church 857 Beaverdam Rd. More...
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 Personalities
• Rebekah Montgomery guest of honor at baby shower Apr. 24
Rebekah Montgomery of Lincolnton was guest of honor at a baby shower on Thursday, April 24, given by the Washington-Wilkes Elementary School Sunshine Club at the elementary school. Mrs. Montgomery, a faculty member at WWES, was presented a corsage of white daisies tied with pink ribbon to complement her navy and white polka dotted ensemble. More...
• article has image Amanda Danielle Wolfe to wed Joshua Noel Miller on Sept. 20
• article has image Lauren Nicole Wylie to marry John Willie Gartrell III May 31
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 Don't Forget
• Don't Forget
The Wa shing t on-Wi lke s Communit yBloo sponsored by Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary in conjunction with Shepeard Community Blood Center will be held Thursday, May 15, 2-7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church. More...
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