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Stuck truck in downtown Swainsboro
On Saturday, Jan. 27, a little after 1 p.m., this truck from Advantage Truck Leasing was attempting to turn right onto East Main Street in Swainsboro from South Main Street when it became lodged between the permanent awning of the Tax Commissioner's office. The driver, Ricky L. Henderson of Augusta... More...
Sons of Jubal to perform Feb. 8

The Sons of Jubal will perform in concert at First Baptist Church of Swainsboro Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. Sons of Jubal, the oldest group of its kind in the Southern Baptist Convention, is a male chorus for ministers of music who sing under the directio... More...

HOPE Scholarship program reaches one million mark

Last Thursday, a celebration was held at the State Capitol recognizing the milestone of 1 million HOPE Scholarship recipients since the inception of the program in 1993. It is truly an outstanding achievement for Georgia to have been able to send a million students to our state's colleges, universi... More...

 Inside Front
•Question of the week:
"No, because I'm still going to continue to travel where I need to go."-- Wilson Rodrigues, Swainsboro More...
•Perkowski exhibits outback photos at Kalmanson
•Chamber's 'A Taste of Italy' planned for Feb. 1
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 News
•Emanu'Ole Opry returns !
Emanuel Arts Council, Inc. has scheduled its Emanu'Ole Opry for Saturday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. in the EAC Auditorium. Admission for the performance is $10. The show will follow an EAC Building Fund Benefit Chili Supper for $5 more. All proceeds will go toward the building renovation and restoration of... More...
•Extension offers invasive weed control class
•Sheriff's Report
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 Community
•More 'Dancing with Stars'
Pilot Club of Emanuel County is sponsoring "Swainsboro Dancing with the Stars" Friday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at Swainsboro Emanuel County Auditorium. Admission is $10 and proceeds will benefit Project Lifesaver. More...
•Dunn resigns from KEB
•Puppet Soup!
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 Sports
•Nije leads Eagles past Bulloch
Senior Dawda Njie scored 19 points and pulled down 15 rebounds to lead David Emanuel Academy to a 69-59 win over Bulloch Academy last Saturday night in Statesboro. The non-region victory improved the number one ranked Eagles to 19-1 on the season and was their fifth straight win. More...
•ECI basketball scores
•To be noted
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 Obituaries
•John B. Creech, 69
STILLMORE--Funeral for John B. Creech, 69, was held Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007 at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Tomlinson Funeral Home with Rev. George Archer and Rev. Louis Pearce officiating. Burial was in Stillmore City Cemetery. He died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007 at East Georgia Regional Hospital in States... More...
•Cephus Cowart, 73
•Roy 'Ox' Chester Sr., 55
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 Columns
•Jacquie Brasher
"Did you see there are eight candidates so far for President? It's all President Bush's fault. He lowered the standards."- David Letterman. My pain threshold for watching President Bush speak on TV is about three minutes. Therefore, I hardly watched his State of the Union address last week s... More...
•Jack Atkinson
•Bill Shipp
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 Editorial
•Keep HOPE!
One million Georgia students have received the HOPE Scholarship since its inception in 1993. We wholeheartedly agree with Rep. Butch Parrish, who said, "It is truly an outstanding achievement for Georgia to have been able to send a million students to our state's colleges, universities and technic... More...
•Political Cartoon
•Political Cartoon
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 Letters
•DEAR EDITOR:
On Jan. 4, we received a call from on of the police officers who had found 10 puppies at a dumpster. We made arrangements to meet him at the Animal Shelter. When he arrived with them, I was expecting them to be about 6 weeks old or older, but they were newborns. I don't understand how anyone could ... More...
•DEAR EDITOR:
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 Legals
•Legal Notices
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER GEORGIA, EMANUEL COUNTY By virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Security Deed from Tina M. Eunice and Charles A. Eunice to Bank of America, N.A. More...
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