Workers from the environmental testing contractor Verco of West Columbia, S.C., drill a 30-foot sampling well in the parking lot of the News- Reporter, part of the NAPA block Phase II Environmental Testing, on East Robert Toombs Avenue. More...
Unemployment in Wilkes County went up in January, rising to 12.2 percent from an adjusted 11.5 percent in December, and still higher than the state and national average rates. More...
The Concerned Citizens of Wilkes County (CCOWC) asked the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners if pictures of houses and also aerial photographs could be included in the Board of Tax Assessors’ online information website at www.qpublic. More...
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating an accident that saw an out-of-town driver lose control of his truck last Thursday morning and crash into trees off Harris Road south of Washington. More...
Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School (W-WCHS) and Washington-Wilkes Middle School (W-WMS) have announced Monday, March 22, as the date of a joint open house for parents and students of each school. More...
Nine members of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) at Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School attended the Georgia HOSA State Leadership and Competitive Events Conference in Athens March 4-6. More...
TO THE EDITOR: For the Mayor and City Council: One thing is for sure. We as a people have lost our focus. We have taken our eyes off of the prize – Jesus Christ. It is about God. It is about pleasing God to meet the needs of the people. More...
Both the boys and girls Washington Wilkes Tiger track teams got the season started off with second place finishes in the first meet of the year competing against Madison County and Taliaferro County on March 9. More...
The W-W Tiger Diamond Girls assist the varsity, junior varsity, and middle school baseball teams by being in charge of selling tickets, running the scoreboard, and announcing the players during the games. More...
Tanya Fair, manager of the Sewing Center at God’s Marketplace, and Jennifer Slaton, GMI volunteer, prepare a shipment of over 225 pounds of clothing to be sent to a church in the Ukraine. More...
The First Baptist Church of Washington invites any high school or college student who is a resident of Wilkes County and is majoring in or intends to major in the area of fine arts to apply for the Troupe M. Harris Jr. More...
The Wilkes County Young Farmer Equipment Auction will be held Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m., at the McGill-Woodruff Ag. Center on U.S. Hwy 78 By-Pass, Washington. Buy or sell. More...
Facing a funding shortfall of more than $1.1 million, the Wilkes County Board of Education met in a workshop Friday afternoon to hear Superintendent Dr. Rosemary Caddell’s plan to deal with the problem. More...
The Washington Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will meet at City Hall Thursday, March 18, at 10:30 a.m. to consider proposals to build a hotel adjacent to the Pope Center. More...
Authorities are seeking information and a family is offering a $5,000 reward in connection with a hit-and-run accident Friday night on Skull Shoals Road in Washington that has left a Washington woman in a coma. More...
This beautiful mild, sunshiny weather is a reminder that we’ve got to get busy cleaning our property before the annual Tour of Homes on April 2-3. More...
Graveside services for Alma Thornton Gilreath, 82, of South Pecan Street, Washington, were held Saturday, March 13, 2010, in Resthaven Cemetery with Rev. Albert W. Huyck Jr. officiating. More...
Funeral services for Rose Emma Mays Andrews, 80, of Washington were held Saturday, March 13, 2010, at Mark’s Tabernacle Baptist Church with Rev. George Booker officiating. The interment was in City West Cemetery, Washington. More...
Graveside services for William Stevenson “Billy” McClearen, 67, of Tifton were held Saturday, March 13, 2010, in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Tifton, with Dr. W. Ches Smith III and Dr. Wayne Roe officiating. More...
John Daniel Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Brad Tyler of Montgomery, Ala., announce the birth of their son, John Daniel, on Wednesday, March 3, at Baptist East Hospital in Montgomery. John weighed seven pounds and was 19 ½ inches long. More...
Daryl and Arlene McIntyre of Suwanee announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer, of Lawrenceville, to Erich Verdery of Winder, son of Tyler and Rita Verdery of Washington. More...
