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SHS track team wins!
Swainsboro High won the state track meet on Saturday, May 12. This is the first time in Swainsboro High's school history that the boy's track team won state. Coaching the players to victory were Travis Ellington, head coach and Brice Hobbs, assistant coach. Head coach Travis... More...
BOE approves 3 percent pay raises

At its meeting Monday night, Emanuel County Board of Education approved a three percent raise for all employees, system-wide. The tentative budget for July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008 was also approved. Total estimated expenditures are $28,984,854. Final adoption of the budget w... More...

Memorial Day deadlines

The Forest-Blade will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. Early deadlines: The Blade Plus for May 28: News--Wednesday, May 23 at 12 Noon. Advertising--Thursday, May 24 at 11 a.m. More...

 Inside Front
•Summer reading program begins May 29
Coming this summer, Franklin Memorial Library is expanding their Summer Reading Program to include a Teen Program for ages 13-18. Teens will be able to participate in the reading for fun activities, receive prizes, enter contests and more. This year's program will begin with ... More...
•Question of the week:
•EAC summer camps
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 News
•Sheriff's Report
Emanuel County Sheriff's deputies reported the following cases: May 2 A Spearman Rd., Adrian man reported being bitten by a dog. May 4 Aman on Eagle Pass reported a truck tore down his cable line. May 5 An Old Wadley Rd. man reported his ex-wife and her boyfriend have... More...
•Jail Activity
•Wilkerson sentenced in Superior Court
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 Community
•Signing in
Jean and Jimmy Morgan recently attended the Swainsboro-Emanuel County Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event at Swainsboro Country Club. The event was hosted by AFLAC. Checking them in was Crystal Glisson from the Chamber. More...
•Essay winners
•Worth a million words
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 Sports
•EGC disc golf team finishes fourth
The East Georgia College Disc Golf Team finished fourth in the National Collegiate Disc Golf Union Championship, held in Augusta, April 13- 15. The competition was the first national collegiate disc golf championship, and drew NCAA Division I powerhouses The University of Geo... More...
•Beth Lane
•Waller signs with University of the Cumberlands
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 Obituaries
•Rudolph Fields, 88
SWAINSBORO--Funeral for Rudolph Fields, 88, was held Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Peebles-Curry- Durden Mortuary with Dr. Ray Freeman officiating. Burial was in Swainsboro City Cemetery. He died Thursday, May 10, 2007, at Emanuel Medical Center Nursing Ho... More...
•Paul F. 'Peanut' Morgan, 81
•Mary Ann Price Fields, 82
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 Columns
•Saxby: Prescient or pandering
If they gave politicians awards for swimming against the national tide, Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss would win a gold medal. As a politician who faces re-election next year, Chambliss also deserves some kind of citation for fearlessness, not to mention loyalty to a president... More...
•What is on television?
•Art is...Exhausting
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 Letters
•DEAR EDITOR:
On May 7 at approximately 4 a.m., my wife and I were suddenly awakened by a knocking on our bedroom window and startled by the brightness of a flashlight being shone through the pane. A commanding voice shouted, "Swainsboro Police, please come to the front door. More...
•DEAR EDITOR:
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 Legals
•Legal Notices
State Of Georgia County Of Emanuel In Re: Estate Of F. Dickson Durden, Deceased All creditors of the estate of F. More...
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