For the third year, Millen Better Hometown, Millen/Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce, Jenkins County Commissioners and the City of Millen are sponsoring Keep Jenkins Beautiful in April. The theme this year is "Fifty to Fix." We are looking for 50 groups to help clean up the city and county. More...
The Jenkins County Board of Education (BOE) announced last week that nine professional positions will be eliminated for fiscal year 2008-2009, five at Jenkins County Elementary School; two at Jenkins County Middle School and 2.5 at Jenkins County High School. More...
A standing-room-only crowd of local citizens gathered at the Jenkins County Agriculture Center Monday night to voice their concerns about the local school system following a recent announcement that nine teaching positions would be eliminated from the 2008-2009 school budget. More...
The Jenkins County school system joined in a statewide celebration last week to salute the efforts of local school board members. The week of March 17-21 has been proclaimed School Board Appreciation Week in Georgia. The weeklong observance calls attention to the contributions of local boards of e... More...
The spring weather we have been having lately has me thinking about fishing and remembering my adventures as a youth. I loved to go fishing with my daddy or granddaddy. I can recall sitting for hours on the bank of a pond, Buckhead Creek or the Ogeechee River and watching the cork on the end of m... More...
Sure Word Baptist Church Second Annual Revival Sure Word Baptist Church's Second Annual Revival Meeting services are currently ongoing through Sunday, March 30. Services are being held at 7 p.m. each night through Saturday, and at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Ricky Anderson is the gu... More...
It's been 20 years since you left us, To go to your heavenly home. We're doing our best to try and carry on. We know God had a reason for calling you, But when you got that call to go sit at Jesus' feet, We lost a darling loved one that life cannot repeat. More...
Jenkins County Second Annual Barbecue Cook-off The Jenkins County Second Annual Barbecue Cookoff will be held on Jenkins County Recreation Department's Opening Day, Saturday, April 5. Proceeds from the cookoff will benefit the Patriotic Fireworks Celebration to be held in July. More...
Thank you The Jenkins County Athletic Booster Club would like to thank the public, Modern Woodmen of America, and the loyal cooks for another successful Booster Club fund-raiser. More...
Vera Louise Batchelor Burke Carroll, 78, of Grovetown died Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at Doctor's Hospital in Augusta. Her funeral was held 11 a.m. Monday, March 17, in the chapel of Thompson-Strickland-Waters Funeral Home with the Rev. John Parker officiating. Burial was in the Big Horse Creek Ba... More...
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