As a packed house of family and friends looked on Saturday night, 16-year-old high school student Chelsea Tamsi of Washington was chosen from among 44 contestants as Miss Wilkes County for 2015. More...
Cancer survivors are still needed to sign up for the Wilkes County Relay for Life Survivor Dinner set for Tuesday, March 24 in the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church, Relay chairman Margie Burke said. More...
In his last year as a Wilkes County FFA member, W-WCHS senior Jackson Armour again took top honors at the annual Washington Area Junior Steer and Heifer Show last weekend after showing the Reserve Champion Steer last year and the Grand Champion Steer More...
Baseball is in the air and Spring will be springing soon, and that’s good news. The Tigers have already started playing and the Braves are in Spring training. And Little League is signing up players. More...
Not many of your friends or mine would take note if Steve Stice, the University of Georgia’s most exalted scientist, walked into a room – as they would if some football coach, athlete of note, or musical personality were in their midst. More...
Funeral services for Lillie Mae “Baby Lillie” Jones Granade, 84, of Bogart, Georgia, were held Wednesday, February 18, at 2 p.m. at Hopkins Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Reviere officiating. Interment followed in Resthaven Cemetery. More...
Funeral services for Roy L. Garrard, 92, were held at Chance and Hydrick Funeral Directors in Augusta on February 24 with Dr. Bill Harrell, Dr. Jim Ford, and Steve Cheek officiating. Interment followed at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Augusta. Mr. More...
The first fatal house fire in Washington Wilkes in years claimed the life of a Lexington Avenue man who may have died trying to put out the fire in his small home Sunday morning. More...
After months without a house fire anywhere in Washington-Wilkes, fire broke out early in the morning of Thursday, February 26, at a home on North Alexander Street. More...
Using a grant from the owners of the nearby Foxwood Senior Village, City of Washington workers planted more than 50 trees and shrubs around Simpson Park last week in an effort to beautify the neighbo More...
Washington-Wilkes Elementary School students (top photo, l-r) Maggie Marxson, Stephanie Colunga, and Romaisa Aamir showed that they like differences when they dressed up for “Tacky Day” d More...
Rev. Seymore Harrison, pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Lincolnton, will be the guest speaker at Family and Friends Day, Sunday, March 8, at New Ford Baptist Church. The service will begin at 2 p.m. More...
High school seniors from Wilkes and Lincoln Counties may now apply for a scholarship sponsored by the Lincoln-Wilkes Retired Educators Association (LWREA). Students who apply must be planning to attend a college or vocational school for the 201 More...
(Editor’s note: The author of the following letter, Clarence Davis, was featured in this newspaper during Black History Month as one of Ed Anderson’s Unsung Heroes of Wilkes County.) TO THE EDITOR: More...
The Washington-Wilkes Tiger varsity baseball team started the region schedule with a double win Saturday in a Riverside Military doubleheader. In the first game, the Tigers won in extra innings, 13-12. More...
Every child is born spiritually blind, in need of instruction and guidance. A young child is receptive to this kind of intimate training but, once he reaches adolescence, his life view is substantially established. More...
