February 18, 2010 RSS feed / News

... in a winter wonderland

W-WMS seventh-grader Ashlyn Holley shared her News-Reporter with the snowman she created last Saturday after the big weekend show. More...

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Dockery, Smith show top entires in Rayle EMS junior dairy show

The third annual Rayle EMC Invitational Junior Commercial Dairy Heifer Show was held Saturday, January 30, at the McGill-Woodruff Ag Center with 21 participants in grades three through 12 exhibiting. More...

Spring sports signups to begin at PRD; soccer already begun

Registration dates for youth spring sports at the Washington- Wilkes Parks and Recreation have been announced. Registration for Spring Soccer began February 1. More...

Chief Davis speaks on home invasion

Washington Police Chief Mike Davis spoke to a Tea and Learn event last week on the subject of home invasion. At the session hosted by Wills Memorial Hospital, Davis told participants that there are over 8,000 home invasions every day in the U.S. More...

Wilkes schools are all clear in scandal involving 2009 CRCT testing erasures

Wilkes County schools have been completely cleared in a widespread cheating scandal revealed last week affecting the state’s 2009 Criterion- Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). More...

Revolutionary Days visits schools

Fourth graders at Washington-Wilkes Elementary School listen raptly as George Thurmond of the Sons of the American Revolution describes Wilkes County during the Revolution and how the Battle of Kettle More...

Classical trio set to ‘serenade’ music lovers in intimate setting

The trio of classical musicians behind the celebrated “Serenade” album will be performing in Washington on February 20 at the Bolton Lunceford Playhouse as part of the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation Concert Series. More...

Lundberg News

We will have a Gideon speaker at Clifford’s Grove Baptist Church this Sunday, February 21. Members, please come and let’s support the Gideons. More...

Back-to-back wins – again

On the heels of his winning the Wilkes County Spelling Bee for the second year in a row comes the announcement that Milton Turner (right) was the winner of the Washington-Wilkes Elementary School Geography Bee for the second year in a row. More...

Valentine dance D.J. was ‘awesome;’ color guard tryouts begin next week

W-WMS is joining Wilkes County Schools in preparation for a visit from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), February 21-24. SACS accredits over 13,000 schools in the United States. More...

Gospel music concert set Sunday, Feb. 21, at Clark’s Station Baptist

Clark’s Station Baptist Church will host a gospel music concert on Sunday, February 21, at 11 a.m. The special guest for the concert will be international music star Charlotte Ritchie. Mrs. More...

Kiwanis Talent Showcase set at W-WES March 11, 7 p.m.

The 28th Annual Kiwanis Art and Talent Showcase will be held March 11 at 7 p.m. at the Washington- Wilkes Elementary School. The art entry deadline is March 5 at 10 a.m. and auditions for the talent show will be held March 9 at 6 p.m. at W-WES. More...

Community blood drive set at Methodist Church Feb. 18

The quarterly Community Blood Drive sponsored by the Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and Shepeard Community Blood Center will be held Thursday, February 18, at the First United Methodist Church from 2:00 until 7:00 p.m. More...

Grand Jury returns true bills during February term

Two men arrested for sex crimes, several men arrested in connection with the Boom Boom Room, and a couple on an alleged armed robbery spree were among those arraigned by the Wilkes County Grand Jury last week. More...

History professor to speak at Civil War Round Table Mon.

Dr. Carol Crowe Carraco, Professor of history at Western Kentucky University, will present “Courageous Capitulating Confederates: Georgia, 1865” to the Washington Civil War Round Table on Monday evening, February 22, at 6 p.m. More...

W-W Pre-K to take applications March 1-5 for next school year

Washington-Wilkes Pre-K will begin accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year on March 1 and will continued throughout the week until March 5. More...

Snowfall can’t stop Revolutionary Days activities observing Kettle Creek battle

A Friday night snowfall failed to dampen the Revolutionary spirit as hundreds of people came to observe the anniversary of the Battle of Kettle Creek in Washington over the weekend. More...

Work Ready testing next week to help Wilkes workers get jobs

To make workers in Wilkes County more competitive in the job market, testing for the Work Ready program is set for next week. More...

Tignall News

Wasn’t that the prettiest snow ever? That’s the kind I like. Here today, gone tomorrow! More...

RAYLE NEWS

We got our snow Friday and it was so pretty and we enjoyed it so much. I still want it to snow on a school day for the children to get out of school. The snow was just right, here today, gone tomorrow. More...