High school actors will meet in the spotlight next Thursday to raise funds for a local center that helps more than 80 special needs children.
Burke County High School’s advanced acting class and the cast of Edmund Burke Academy’s one act play will combine for a 6:30 p.m. dinner theater to raise funds for the Center for New Beginnings (CNB). More...
Burke County High School will have a new principal next year.
Sam Adkins, currently principal of SGA Elementary School, will replace Wayne Hickman as the top administrator at the high school. Hickman will be transferred to the central office. More...
A Burke County man has been jailed for killing a cow, then trying to make his getaway on a tractor.
Probation officers called for backup Saturday when they went to the Seven Oaks Road home of Stanley McClendon Williams, 52, and found him shooting at cows in a nearby field. More...
Burke is among 154 Georgia counties with a growing pool of jobless residents.
Burke County’s unemployment rate rose slightly in the first month of 2010, finishing out January at 11.3 percent, according to preliminary figures released by the Georgia Department of Labor. More...
Sophomore Brandon Sharpe pitched Edmund Burke past the No. 1 team in GISA baseball last Saturday to give the Spartans an impressive 2-0 victory. More...
A Burke County Jail inmate survived an attempted hanging by shoestring.
Thomas Alexander Walker, 21, was rushed to MCGHealth Medical Center last Wednesday after- noon after his cellmate found him and called for jailers. More...
Benjamin Franklin Hill, 65, of Waynesboro, Ga., entered into rest Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at University Hospital.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 12, at the funeral home with the Rev. Steve Sirmons officiating.
He was born on September 14, 1944 in Millen, Ga., to Gladys Saxon Hill Pate and the late Thomas Watson Hill. More...
Again this year I am receiving calls on Mistletoe damage in landscape trees. Although mistletoe has green leaves and manufactures part of its own food supply, it does depend on its host (the tree) for water and nutrients. More...
More help is on its way,
thanks to Burke Black
Churches. In less than
two months, the more
than 75 churches in the
organization have
raised in excess of
$200,000 to help Haitians
in the aftermath of
the Jan. More...
Jones Grove
Jones Grove Baptist Church will celebrate its 37th Usher’s Anniversary 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 21.
Minister Jeanette Harden will deliver the message.
Sam’s Creek Baptist Church choir will be the guest choir.
The Rev. Melvin Habersham and the Jones Grove Church family invite the public.
Second Springfield More...
The Waynesboro Exchange
Club welcomed outstanding
students from Burke County
High School and Edmund
Burke Academy to their meetings
over the past couple of
weeks. More...
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