Seeking advice and suggestions, Wilkes County Elections Superintendent Thomas Charping proposed that the consolidation of the four City of Washington polling places into just one would save money for the county and its taxpayers. More...
Cooperation between the Wilkes County schools and the Washington Wilkes Parks and Recreation Department will help solve potential parking problems during home football games in the future. More...
The seasonal increase in hand, foot, and mouth disease among Washington-Wilkes children is in full swing right now, and the Wilkes County Health Department is offering practical advice to parents for treating the common Coxsackie virus and minimizing More...
That mini-storm we had Saturday night left half an inch in my rain gauge on Court Street, and three-fourths of an inch in Norris Ware’s gauge on Hill Street. It was very welcome. More...
Sometimes the 24-hour coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on late-night cable TV has been a cure for insomnia, but sometimes the NBC’s efforts to cover the games has been so poor, from a dozen commercials an hour to tape delays of importa More...
The Interestings are a group of young people at a summer arts camp, Spirit-in-the- Woods. They christen themselves “the Interestings” because they believe that they are. More...
Funeral services for Mary Pauline Cross, 83, were conducted Saturday, August 13, at 12 p.m. at Pole Branch Missionary Baptist Church. Interment was in the church cemetery. More...
Patricia Daniel Bailey, 74, of Liberty Street in Washington, died Monday, August 8, at her home. Private family services were officiated by Rev. More...
Memorial services for Frank Samuel McGaughey III, of Washington and Atlanta, were held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta on Saturday August 13, at 2 p.m. with reception following at the church. He died Saturday, August 6. More...
Mulberry Baptist Church will have a homecoming service on Sunday, August 21, at 11:45 a.m. Revival services will be August 22- 24, at 7:30 p.m. nightly with Rev. Samuel Duggan, pastor of Greater Level Hill Baptist Church. More...
A Wilkes County Grand Jury has indicted a Washington woman in the August 2015 murder of a five-week old infant she was caring for on Norman Street. More...
A Washington woman was arrested in connection with a theft from a store in Tignall after she admitted to taking bank deposits; and a second case of alleged employee theft from a Wilkes County business is under investigation. More...
Tickets may be scarce and reservations are recommended for the Washington Little Theater Company’s only three performances of “The Hallelujah Girls” this weekend, set for Friday and More...
One of the highlights of last week’s Chamber Week, Wednesday’s Chamber Member Marketplace (top photo), at the Pope Center allowed members to set up displays for the public to visit from t More...
Hannah McTier (left), a 2016 graduate of Berry College and a 2012 graduate of Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School, has just returned from a six-week scholarship study at the University of Osl More...
School is back in session in most parts of Georgia, and many families are returning to their normal routines. But less time chasing summertime adventures may mean more time consuming news and, unfortunately, new stories about the Zika virus. More...
“No matter how good you are, you are going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you are going to win one-third of your games. More...
The W-W Lady Tigers softball team lost its home opener but rebounded to win four games in a row including a 4-0 shutout victory over Elbert County at Tiger Field last Wednesday. More...
Beginning this month, the 2016- 2017 Georgia Hunting Seasons and Regulations Guide is available online and in print, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division has announced. More...
Once we are born again through faith in Jesus Christ, we become inseparable from the love of God through Jesus. No matter what happens to us in the flesh, we cannot be separ a ted from Jesus our Saviour and God’s love for us. More...
Bonnie and Jason Hunnicutt of Pawleys Island, S.C., announce the birth of their son, Bennett Matthew, on Tuesday, August 2, at Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet, S.C. Bennett weighed 9 lbs. 2 ozs. and was 21 inches long. More...
The Washington affiliate of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) @ UGA will begin its new season with a membership tea Friday, September 16, from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Parish House of the Episcopal Church of the Mediator. More...
Haley Ward of Athens and Jacob Thornton of Siloam were entertained at a couples gift card shower Friday, July 15, hosted by Lynn and Lee Connell, Gail and Tom Duggan, Tracie and Bob Haughey, Janet and Darren Pharr, and Kelly and Tony Powell at the Co More...
