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February 28th, 2007
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Woods arrested for embezzlement
After an almost twoweek investigation by Emanuel County Sheriff's Office and the Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Terry Ray Woods, 50, of Swainsboro was arrested on 112 felony theft by deception warrants. Woods served as assistant superintendent for student services for Emanuel C... More...
Coxwell goes on shooting rampage

According to Emanuel County Sheriff J. Tyson Stephens, deputies responded Sunday night, Feb. 25 around 10 p.m. to a 911 emergency call on Fairground Road where a suspect was shooting at his neighbor's house. The suspect, identified as Charles Coxwell, 48, was firing a rifle across the street at hi... More...

Active Duty

The Forest-Blade will keep an active duty list of all Emanuel County natives serving at home and abroad. Submit name, rank, branch and hometown to The Forest-Blade, PO Box 938, Swainsboro, Ga 30401; call 237-9971; or e-mail us at news@forestblade. More...

 News
•Earls to speak at EGC
Tim Earls, television and movie set designer in Los Angeles, California, will give a presentation in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Center Auditorium at East Georgia College on Thursday, March 8, at 11 a.m. An alumnus of East Georgia College, Earls has had a wide-ranging career in designing electronic... More...
•Question of the week:
•Congressman Barrow visits
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 Community
•Miss Wilson, Mr. Patrick announce engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hopkins of Washington and Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Wilson of Tignall announce the engagement of their daughter, Vanessa Wilson to Clayton "Clay" Roan Patrick of Guyton. The future groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edd Patrick of Swainsboro. More...
•New Arrivals
•EMC Nursing Home holds Valentine Ball
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 Sports
•DEA Eagles reach Final Four
The boys team at David Emanuel Academy boys basketball team reached the Final Four for the only the second time in school history as they won both the first and second round games at East Georgia College in Swainsboro last week. DEA defeated Dawson Street Christian School 72-37 in the first round o... More...
•Lady Eagles advance to Final Four
•Roberts receives 'Georgia's Peach of an Athlete' award
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 Obituaries
•George W. Bell, 74
SWAINSBORO--Funeral for George W. Bell, 74, was held Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Hawhammock Baptist Church with Rev. Cail Pressey officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. He died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007 at University Hospital in Augusta. More...
•Bertha Lee Beasley Gay, 99
•Daisy Pearl Wright, 80
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 Columns
•The One and Only: Jean Peacock
Some of us are just born to rebel. I was the best little boy in town (for a while). Jean may have never been the best little girl in town for she was bent on carving out a life whose affectation was the opposite in so many ways from her mother. More...
•A tale of two senators
•I am the king of the castle
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 Letters
•DEAR EDITOR:
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our school system's technology instructors. I don't think they get enough credit for what they have to deal with in today's technological world. Last week, Mrs. More...
•DEAR EDITOR:
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 Legals
•Legal Notices
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER WHEREAS, on June 6, 1986, for value received, Jimmie L. Leverett executed and delivered to the United States of Ameri-ca, acting through the United States Department of Agriculture, More...
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