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The big 'catch' from a local pond
One of the job requirements for law enforcement personnel from Emanuel County Sheriff's Office and Swainsboro Police Department sometimes includes swimming in a pond to retrieve a suspect. Such was the case Thursday, March 22 when SPD officers were called to the Wal-Mart shopping center at about 1:... More...
What's up?

Sunday, April 1 Palm Sunday. Monday, April 2 Swainsboro City Council meeting, City Hall, 6 p.m. You Can Quote Me... In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to... 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@forest-blade. More...

 Inside Front
•Splatter Arena!
Much fun was had by these youngsters who participated in the Splatter Arena at the fifth annual "Art in the Woods" event in Stillmore on Saturday. Kids and adults alike threw gobs of paint at makeshift walls in the woods. More...
•What are your spring break plans?
•Dayfall wins second in band I-95 battle
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 News
•Tech winter quarter president's list released
Students from Emanuel County who have completed 12 or more credit hours and have earned a quarterly grade point average 3.60 or better for Winter Quarter 2007 at Swainsboro Technical College have been placed on the President's List Students on the Winter More...
•FFAmembers attend Super Saturday
•Sheriff's Report
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 Community
•SHS Class of 1987
The SHS Class of 1987 will hold its 20-year on June 23 Swainsboro Country Club at 6 p.m. For more information, call 289-7300 237- 5369. More...
•Get planting!
•Kiwanis preparing for Pine Tree Festival
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 Sports
•Special Olympics
Special Olympics Day will be held at the Swainsboro High School's Tiger Field Stadium on Friday, March 30. Opening ceremony will be at 9:45 a.m. Anyone interested in volunteering for this event should arrive by 8 a.m. at the stadium to sign in. For more information, contact Lori Bonds at 478-494-3... More...
•Tigers claw their way to the top
•SHS Tiger netters play two
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 Obituaries
•Obituaries
Veleta Durden Cannady, 94 TWIN CITY--Funeral for Veleta Durden Cannady, 94, was held Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 11 a.m. at New Beulah United Methodist Church in Metter with Rev. Donna Ashworth and Rev. Bill Thompson officiating. Burial was in Antioch Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. She died T... More...
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 Columns
•First there was one, now there are two
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.--Mark Twain. After 11 years of living with just one cat, Viking showed up on our deck, meow... More...
•April art adventures!
•Adultery, anyone?
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 Editorial
•Supplemental budget pulled for reconsideration
The state's supplemental budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2007 was adopted by the House of Representatives on March 20, but there was a motion later in the evening to reconsider, so House Bill 94 remains in the House pending resolution of a conflict with the Senate leadership. More...
•Political cartoons
•Notes from the Senate...........
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 Letters
•Letters To The Editor
DEAR EDITOR: My name is Eugenia Cleveland Williams. My mother's maiden name was Leta Mae Hart. Her parents were George and Elizabeth Hart. I would like to give a little background on my mother's family. They lived in Emanuel County in the Garfield-Twin City area. My mother was born in June 1911.... More...
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 Legals
•Legal Notices
Georgia, Emanuel County Probate Court Melani Dixon and Casey Woods have petitioned to be appointed Administrators of the estate of Debra Fennell Page, deceasedof said County. More...
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