Students earn field trip with essays; band concludes successful fruit sale
Seventy-four middle school and ninth grade high school students have earned the opportunity for a field trip to Atlanta Saturday.
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Problems with the economy, drought, rising costs of hay and increases in the cost of euthanasia and carcass disposal are leading to a nationwide rise in the number of unwanted, neglected or abandoned horses. More...
Students in the First United Methodist Church Pre-K delivered non-perishable items they collected last month to the Washington Food Pantry. More...
The students in Kim Bearse's homeroom collected 130 cans of food, more than any other, in the recent drive at Washington-Wilkes Primary School for donation to God's Marketplace. More...
The Georgia Department of Labor (DOL) has reported that the unemployment rate in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) rose to a preliminary unadjusted rate of 7.7 percent in October, up 1.8 percentage points over the year from October of 2007. More...
The cast of "Sanders Family Christmas" serenaded the crowds of shoppers at Washington's Candlelight Shopping Tuesday night. Candlelight Shopping will return to downtown next Tuesday, Dec. 9, and the Sanders Family will open tonight at 8 p.m. More...
The Wilkes County Community Partnership JumpStart Program mothers and grandmothers attended a parent support and network session on Tuesday, November 25, at the Family Resource Center on Lincoln Circle. More...
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, at 306 Baltimore Road, is hosting a Medicare information session on Saturday, December 6, at 10 a.m. More...
By SHERRY W. NEWSOME Please call 706-678-2898
I hope your Thanksgiving was great. I know ours was, despite the loss of my father. We had a sad feeling, but knew he would want us to go on with our family tradition. G.B. More...
By Bonnie Boatwright Call 274-3264
We had a wonderful time at Sardis Baptist Church Sunday morning. We enjoyed having several visitors among us. The church was decorated beautifully for Christmas. Rev. More...
By SAMILLE SHERRER Please call 706-678-7363
There was a pretty good attendance at Clifford's Grove Baptist Church Sunday. We still have a number of sick people not able to attend. Rev. Martin was back and preached a good Thanksgiving message from the 100th Psalm. Mrs. More...
The Washington Police Department will again sponsor its annual "Gifts for Children" campaign this Christmas. More...
Cynthia Walker and family spotted this bald eagle Thanksgiving morning as they were turning off Danburg Road on the way to her parents' home in Warrenton. The eagle, she said, "was trying to get his 'feast' out of the highway. More...
The Sanders Family, last seen in "Smoke on the Mountain," will return to the Bolton Lunceford Playhouse December 4, 5, 6, and 7 in "Sanders Family Christmas." The time is December 1941, right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and all the men of S More...
