LUNCH MENU

Jenkins County Elementary School

Monday, Sept 4th – holiday Tuesday, Sept. 5th – Salisbury steak w/gravy, wheat roll, creamed potatoes, butter beans or chef salad, fajita wrap or bag lunch: peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Wednesday, Sept. 6th – Pizza, whole kernel corn or chef salad, fajita wrap or bag lunch: uncrustable peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Thursday, Sept. 7th – Sausage links, cornbread, […]

Edmund Burke 7th graders participate in Duke University Talent Program



Each year, personnel at Duke University sponsor the Talent Identification Program (TIP) to identify verbally and mathematically talented students at an early age. This program is designed for seventh graders and offers them a unique challenge— to take the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) or to take the American College Test (ACT). The following students qualified for participation in this year’s […]

Jenkins County Senior Citizens Center Health Fair!



Jenkins County Senior Citizens Center would like to share its appreciation for the staff at PruittHealth-Bethany of Millen for sponsoring a health fair in recognition of National Senior Citizens Day on August 21. Evie Wiggins, Marketing/Admissions Director, PruittHealth, coordinated with staff to provide blood pressure checks, glucose checks, as well as balance and strength exercises for the clients at the […]

Library News



September is just days away, and for us here at the library that means Library Card Sign Up Month. If you know someone, young or not-so-young, who doesn’t have a library card, celebrate the month with us by bringing them in and letting us introduce them to our library’s amazing services. One of those services is our twice-monthly “How It’s […]

Favorite Family photo!



Ronnie and Rhonda Hendley of Millen are shown at the Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry, during a visit to Nashville, TN. (Submit your photo for the “Favorite Family Photo” feature by e-mailing to themillennews@gmail.com or drop it by the news office. All photos will be returned.)

The Chatter Box



I jokingly tell my grandchildren that I don’t have a “mailbox” that it is a “bill box” because that is all I ever get in it. But, the truth is that I also get a lot of sales papers, junk mail, and occasionally, an important correspondence. The mailbox is the receptacle for a lot of communications sent to me. I […]

Mike Reese

“I was just thinking”

It was the third grade, I think. I fell through the monkey bars, from the top to the ground, bouncing from one steel bar to the next, until I thudded onto Georgia clay packed harder than concrete and covered in those tiny pebbles God made to instill toughness in children. I don’t think children today would even know what I’m […]

Don Lively

TO TEN MORE

Just call me syndicated. Sniff, sniff. Yep, that’s me. Well, okay, to be honest, I might be stretching the definition of syndicated just a scrimption but one published definition of “syndicated” reads; “to publish simultaneously in a number of newspapers”. Well, two (2) is a number, so, I’m covered. I appear in whichever weekly that you are currently reading these […]

Home Country



A bunch of us went to the races up in the city the other day. Windy won a little, but the rest of us just kinda broke even, and we got to yell and cheer, so I guess that can cost two bucks without hamstringing the entire regiment. It was fun. And we ran into Brock Bullingham there, too, who […]

Nira Skinner Chance



Mrs. Nira Skinner Chance, 83, of Millen died Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at her residence. She was born in Screven County, was a retired seamstress for Jockey International and a homemaker. Mrs. Chance was a loving mother and grandmother and was a member of Green Fork Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Byron L. Chance, and […]