For the first time, the annual Miss Wilkes County Pageant will be open to 19- and 20-year-old girls, and will award savings bonds to the winners. The pageant is set for Saturday, September 25. More...
The Washington-Wilkes Arts Foundation has announced that a world-famous topiary artist will be featured at the Fall Arts Festival set for November 5, 6, and 7 on The Square in Washington. More...
A large outdoor marijuana growing operation was found and seized last Tuesday off the Lincolnton Road, Sheriff Mark Moore said, as officers of the Governor’s Task Force on Marijuana Eradication made a surprise visit to Wilkes County. More...
The August term of the Wilkes County grand jury has returned indictments on 44 individuals charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to aggravated assault to insulting a school bus driver. More...
Representing Farmers State Bank, Branch Manager Donna Bufford adds the bank’s name to the list of patrons for the Wills Memorial Hospital Foundation. More...
Ann Rogers at Otter Creek Gardens had an interesting experience last week. She has been running an advertisement on the internet for a new line of hydrangeas called “Invincible Spirit,” so named for breast cancer survivors. More...
Maybe it’s just me, but don’t reality TV shows seem to be getting really desperate for the latest chunk of “reality” to expose to the American public? More...
1848 is sub-titled “Year of Revolution.” I’m afraid that I and many other Americans think of “revolution” only in terms of our own American Revolution. Europeans look at the term differently. More...
As the Washington-Wilkes Tigers prepare for this Friday’s pre-season scrimmage jamboree with the Elbert County Blue Devils, Head Coach Lee Hutto has announced that there are still season tickets available for the six home games scheduled for 2 More...
The summer Wilkes County Young Farmers Truck and Tractor Pull is set for Saturday, August 21, at the facility off Highway 78 at Big Cedar Road in Aonia. The first pull is at 3 p.m. More...
The Washington-Wilkes Lady Tigers got off to a slow start last week going 1-4 over the weekend at Patriots Park in Columbia County. Their only win came Saturday against Washington County by the narrow margin of 4-3. More...
Bryanna Dell Pilgrim of Thomson and Jeremy Gordon Johnson of Norwood exchanged wedding vows in a beautiful double-ring ceremony Saturday, July 24, at five-thirty o’clock in the afternoon at Antioch Christian Church in Thomson. More...
Bride-elect Margaret Rae Evans was entertained at a miscellaneous shower on Saturday, August 7, at The Sandwich Shop in Washington. Hostesses for the occasion were Shane Newsome Gaines of Nicholson, Mollie West Skeens and Peggy West. More...
Darcy Leanne Newsome of Springfield, Va., and Ian Christopher Peth of Woodbridge, Va., were married Saturday, July 24, at five o’clock in the afternoon at DeLille Cellars in Woodinville, Wash. Rev. More...
County Administrator David Tyler reported that Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) revenue received by the county for the month of May (the most recent) amounted to $94,434.02, and that Local Option Sales Tax revenue for the same month w More...
At the regular August meeting of the Wilkes County Board of Education Monday night, the principals of all four Wilkes County schools reported “a great start” to the school year, and received plaques com- memorating Wilkes County’s More...
A South Carolina-based Bi-Lo truck driver escaped serious injury Monday afternoon when his southbound truck left the road surface on Highway 17 just south of Tignall and rolled over on its side. More...
Wills Memorial Hospital Director of Nursing Jane Echols, RN, speaks to last week’s Tea and Learn session on the topic of women’s health issues, including hormone replacement therapy, breast health, and high blood pressure, followed by a q More...
Ansley Newsome (left) and Kristin Lukich were the first part of the program for the Washington Rotary Club during which they told of their experiences at RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) Camp held earlier this summer. More...
Three casting call dates remain for a new live stage play, “What Da Devil,” written by Nathaniel Fanning, a playwright born and raised in Washington, and will be held August 23, and 24 at 6 p.m., and August 21 and 28 at 9 a.m. More...
Jackson Pope, Logan, Levi, and Kelsie Scott, and Katie Pope had their News-Reporter along for a vacation at Fripp Island, S.C., where they enjoyed playing at the beach, riding golf carts, and feeding the deer that roam the island. More...
TO THE EDITOR: As a new resident of Washington, Georgia I wanted to share some observations about my new home town. I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta and in the last 20 years have lived in eight cities in the U.S. and Canada. More...
Funeral services for Thenia Jenkins, 100, of Tignall were held Saturday, August 7, 2010, at the New Ford Baptist Church with Rev. H.M. Easley officiating. Interment was in the St. John’s Baptist Church Cemetery. She died August 3. More...
Funeral services for George Eben Garrard, 96, of Washington were held Sunday, August 15, 2010, in the Smyrna United Methodist Church, Washington. Interment was in the church cemetery. He died Friday, August 13, at Washington Manor. More...
Funeral services for Annie Sarah Hill Key, 84, of Washington were held Saturday, August 14, 2010, at Flint Hill Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Larry Norman officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. More...
New Sutton Temple will be having a yard sale and plate fund-raiser on Saturday, August 21, beginning at 7 a.m. at the church located at 107 Alabama Street. Yard sale items will be marked $0.25 and up. More...
The Class of 1968 of Washington Central High School is planning a Pre-Labor Day reunion Saturday, September 4. Class members who are planning to attend should call Loretta at 706-717-0200; or Claudell at 706-401-1797. ƒ More...
