Futurity winner has ties to Millen
By Chris Gay
      (Editor's note: Priscilla Crawley competed in The Augusta Futurity in Augusta last week.) At this rate, Priscilla Crawley will have paid for most of her college education. Atop Smart Little Rooster, the 17-year-old Crawley easily won her second Area 18 Youth Scholarship Cutting finals Friday...
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Qualifying fees set for City of Millen election
      Qualifying fees for the City of Millen Nonpartisan General Election to take place Tuesday, Nov. 6, has been set at $45 for each council seat and $108 for the Mayor's position. Council seats up for election are Ward #1, to succeed Darrel Clifton; Ward #2, to succeed Lee Ward Williams; and Mayor, to...
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Millen Rotary Club
     Dr. Kyle Gay was the guest speaker at the Wednesday, Jan. 24, meeting of the Millen Rotary Club. (Photos contributed)
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Library News
      January's gone by and February is arriving - and with it, our annual celebration of the vital role that Black Americans have made to our country and the world. As part of the fun we have planned to help celebrate, Black History Month, Barbara Cheeseboro will visit our library on Tuesday, February1...
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Cowart resigns after 50 years in the funeral business
      Phil Cowart recently retired from 50 years of service as a licensed funeral home director and embalmer. He began working with Thompson Funeral Home in Sylvania in the 1960s. At first, he worked part-time when James Strickland and Ronnie Waters bought the funeral home on Singleton Avenue and, later...
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Remembering Private Peevy
      Neil Dickey, above, was among a large group who paid their respects to his late great-grandfather, Private Guilford Peevy. The Margaret Jones #27 United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) of Waynesboro hosted a memorial service for the Confederate War soldier at the Doubleheads Baptist Church c...
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