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Washington's Anthony Forest Products earns national 'safest company' awards
Anthony Forest Products' Washington laminating plant has won the first-ever "Safest Company Award" from APA, the Engineered Wood Association. "That's an extraordinary success story," said Steve Zylkowski, Vice President of APA-The Engineered Wood Association, "and it says something about both the management team at Anthony Forest and the employees. More...
Children's Playhouse opens next week

The Wizard (Billy Creel) casts a spell over sleeping Aladdin (Scott Lewis) in rehearsals for the Washington Little Theater's The Children's Playhouse upcoming performances. Students from Wilkes County and Lincoln County schools will experience live theater all next week starring actors Creel and Lewis, along with Paula Stevens and Tara Townsend. The Children's Playhouse began in 2004 to provide the experience of live theatrical performances for area schoolchildren, many of whom have never seen live theater. More...

Fall ArtFest issues call for artists Nov. 7-8

The Washington-Wilkes Arts Foundation has issued a call for artists to exhibit their works at this year's Fall ArtFest set for November 7 and 8, bringing both new and returning favorite artists for the crowds of art lovers to meet. More...

 News
• article has image Springfield Baptist Bible Bowl team receives championship
A record number of Sunday School students participated in the most recent Bible Bowl competition which was conducted at Hilliard Station Baptist Church during the August 28-30 quarterly Wilkes County Sunday School Union. There are no losers in the Bible Bowl competition. More...
• GDOL reports CSRA unemployment rate rises to 11.1% in July
• article has image ... at a French hunting lodge?
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 The Office Cat
• article has image No 'www' when checking grades
Some residents in East Washington and outlying areas were awakened at 6 a.m. Sunday by a siren that resembled the siren used for a tornado warning. I got a call at 6:05 a.m. from Logan Woods asking if I had heard it and if I knew what it was. I had not heard it even though I was in the kitchen with the windows and door open. More...
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 Opinions
• article has image Decades of using a computer's mouse may have rewired my left-handed brain
I had to deal with a computer virus at home this weekend, and as I watched my security software find the demon and cast it out, I thought back over my years of using a computer at work and realized something. More...
• article has image Book Review
• article has image Sunday was a day of rejoicing and a day of mourning
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 Letters
• Community support makes volunteer work gratifying experience TO THE EDITOR:
We would like to thank Sparky and Mary Newsome for the outstanding publicity and posters which resulted in the huge success of the Learning in Retirement Open House last Tuesday. Also essential to the success were John Horton and his staff who offered the Towne Car Showroom for this event and the local merchants. More...
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 Sports
• article has image Tigers beat Banks, must be mistake-free in Thomson
If there were any questions about how the Washington-Wilkes Tigers were going to perform under the direction of a new head coach and staff for the first time, some answers were provided last Friday night. Despite the youth of the team and despite a week of sickness, W-W opened the 2009 season with a conventing win over AA Banks County, 34-21. More...
• article has image Region 7-A SCHEDULES and SCORES
• SOUTHERN FRIED FOOTBALL
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 Obituaries
• Irene Holtcamp Swann
Graveside services for Irene Holtcamp Swann, 86, of Watkinsville were held Sunday, August 30, 2009, at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, with Rev. Donnie Berry officiating. She died Thursday, August 27, at St. Mary's Hospital, Athens. More...
• Betty M. Casper
• Dora Bell Wright
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 Personalities
• article has image New Beginnings
Jamya Aaliyah Gartrell Johnny and Patricia Gartrell of Washington announce the birth of their daughter, Jamya Aaliyah, on Wednesday, August 12, at Athens Regional Medical Center in Athens. Jamya weighed 6 lbs. 1 oz. and was 19 ½ inches long. She has an 18-month-old sister, Juliya. More...
• article has image Hunter Locklair celebrates sixth birthday Aug. 22
• Washington Personal Mention
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 Don't Forget
• Don't Forget
The bereavement support group sponsored by Wills Memorial Hos pita l, wi th Re Kohlhagen as facilitator, will meet September 9, 1 p.m., in the hospital library. For more information call 706-678-7511. . More...
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