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Suspicious package?
Swainsboro Fire Chief Mike Strobridge was among many local responders to Verizon Wireless Friday, Sept. 14. Employees at Verizon reported receiving a "suspicious package" in the mail. Several Swainsboro Police Department officers were at the scene including the HazMat unit. More...
'Never give up'

Emanuel County Superior Court Judge Bobby Reeves was the featured speaker for the Patriot's Day Commemoration Service at "Patriot's Square" in Swainsboro on Sept. 11. Judge Reeves spoke about America's fight against terrorism and quoted Winston Churchill and Cicero. The event was sponsored by Americ... More...

Savannah Luggage fined $76,500

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed penalties totaling $76,500 against Savannah Luggage Works, a Vidalia manufacturer of military and commercial products, including body armor vests. More...

 Inside Front
•Arrests made in KT's burglary
Officers responded to an alarm call at KT's Place. A plexi-glass window was broken and the door was kicked open. The cash register was found across the street from the store. Three suspicious males were seen in the area and all of them gave conflicting stories as to what they had been doing durin... More...
•Question of the week:
•ECHD to conduct flu drill Oct. 2-4
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 News
•Police Report
Swainsboro police officers reported the following cases: Sept. 8 A Braswell Blvd. woman reported a woman, who was identified, and two juveniles came to her residence demanding to see someone. When she told them the person was not there, one of the juveniles stuck his arm in the door and tried t... More...
•Jail Activity
•Sheriff's Report
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 Community
•The Blade meets GACAA!
Bobbie Daughtry, Director of Emanuel Arts Council, Inc., shares Joan Dunn's editorial about Arts in the Schools in The Forest-Blade with Laura Lieberman, Director of Douglasville Cultural Arts Council. Both were attending the Board Retreat for the Georgia Assemblies of Community Arts Agencies (G... More...
•Smith named system 'Teacher of Year'
•Magic Marc to perform at Arts Emanuel
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 Sports
•ECI Dawgs overpower Trojans, 33-0!
This past Friday night the ECI Bulldogs traveled to Wrightsville to face the Johnson County Trojans. The ECI players were not about to let their win streak stop. Coach Milan Turner said, "The kids played hard. I am very proud of the coaches and the players." ECI finished on top with a final score ... More...
•DEA rallies for win
•Tigers prove several predictions wrong
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 Obituaries
•Pearlie Mae Simpkins Green, 98
CROSS-GREEN--Funeral for Pearlie Mae Simpkins Green, 98, was held Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church with Evangelist Roosevelt Johnson officiating. She died Sept. 3, 2007. Mrs. Green was the eldest child of the late Rev. Joe P. Simpkins and Renner Benjamin ... More...
•Lynell Moore Horton, 78
•Ernest A. Grindler, 93
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 Columns
•Barb's Bookshelf: Bryson & Larimore
"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" is for anyone who grew up in the 50's and early 60's, and wants to relive that wonderful time of innocence, when time itself seemed endless. Bill Bryson writes of growing up in Des Moines, Iowa as a child of "The Greatest Generation," otherwise know as t... More...
•Football, fall, fresh starts
•If not Fred, how about...?
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 Letters
•Reader says security of country more important than individual rights
DEAR EDITOR: I would like to voice my opinion to the Question of the Week that was asked of David Porter last week: Do you think we are safer from terrorism six years after 9- 11? In my opinion, when it comes to the security of this country, someone's rights may be infringed but if that is what... More...
•Thank you, SFD
•Report drug dealers to 911!
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 Legals
•Legal Notices
Georgia, Emanuel County Probate Court Ivey G. Davis has petitioned to be appointed Administrator of the estate of Willie Lee Davis, deceased, of said County. More...
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