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June 14, 2006  RSS feed
The perfect blueberry
Marian Byne, 12, was on the hunt for the perfect blueberry Monday as workers on her family's farm picked and packed nearly 1,000 lbs. of Burke County berries. Marian's parents, Dick and Linda, have been operating their Story Mill Road blueberry farm for 26 years, and she and big sisters Diane, Janie More...
Waynesboro police officer fired
By Elizabeth Billips True Citizen Associate Editor

A Waynesboro Police officer was fired Thursday after investigators found evidence he exposed himself to a local woman. More...

BOE tentatively approves $37.9 million budget
By Anne Marie Kyzer True Citizen Staff Writer

The Burke County Board of Education tentatively approved their 2006-2007 budget at nearly $37.9 million in a called meeting last week. More...

Burke landowners may see more favorable pulpwood prices
By Anne Marie Kyzer True Citizen Staff Writer

With the construction of a new oriented strand board (OSB) plant in Allendale County, S.C., local landowners may see more favorable prices for their pulpwood. More...

Commission says pay plan still needs some tweaking
By Diana Royal True Citizen Staff Writer

The Burke County Board of Commissioners met in closed session to discuss an employee's resignation only to emerge and grant a different employee a raise. More...

Homeowners charged with selling illegal liquor
By Elizabeth Billips True Citizen Associate Editor

Police pulled the cork on two liquor houses last weekend and confiscated a trunk-load of illegal spirits. More...

 News
• article has image Summer lunch program feeds more than 2,500 daily
Children - running, biking and riding in cars - swarm a Burke County school bus as it pulls to a stop. The kids aren't looking to be hauled to school; they're looking for lunch. More...
• Summer Lunch Program Sites
• DOOR plans dog-friendly recreation downtown
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 Editorial
• Good ol' boys?
While our county commissioners claim they do not want to operate under the "good ol' boy system," we find ourselves questioning how much they actually support their "new" way of doing things. More...
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 Sports
• article has image Community tennis tournament a success
Forty tennis players from Burke County, Augusta and Sylvania sweated it out at the Summer Burke County Community Tennis Organization Tournament last weekend from Friday, June 9 to Sunday, June 11. More...
• article has image Tennis tournament photos by Michael Griffin
• article has image Bears attend quarterback, receiver camp June 4-8
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 For The Record
• Stray bullets penetrate local apartments, graze teenager
Stray bullets punched into two apartments last Thursday morning, grazing a teenager and lodging into the bedroom wall of a sleeping 7-year-old. More...
• From the Blotter
• Drugs, $8,053 seized in arrest at local hotel
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 Obituaries
• Mrs. Ruth Carter Wedden
Ruth Carter Wedden of Waynesboro, 86, entered into rest at her residence on Saturday, June 10, 2006. More...
• Mrs. Joyce Agerton Greiner
• Mrs. Patricia Kulju
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 Fields & Yields
• article has image Moss management
You may have noticed when cutting your grass that what was once your nice, thick, green lawn has turned into a not-sonice, green something else. What is this stuff that is taking over the lawn? Can it More...
• Recipes From Louise
• article has image In the Furrow
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 Burke Happenings
• Burke Happenings
Family reunion The Reagan, Ivey, Cooper and Griffin family reunion will be held Saturday, June 24, at Magnolia Springs from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. More...
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 Church News
• Church News
Franklin Covenant Franklin Covenant Baptist Church located in Hephzibah will hold a summer revival, June 26-30, beginning at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Speaker will be the Rev. B. J. Martin of Soperton. The Rev. James O. Strowbridge is pastor. More...
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 People
• article has image Parkers celebrate 50 years of marriage
Jimmy Milton and Janie Davis Parker of Sylvania will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Friday, June 16, 2006. More...
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 School News
• article has image Lowe's scholarship awarded
Tina Hensley, an accounting student at Augusta Technical College Waynesboro/Burke campus, was recently awarded a $2,000 scholarship from Lowe's through the Lowe's Scholars Program. Hensley was one of 10 students to be recognized with a scholarship. Now in its third year, the program has provided $60,000 in scholarship support to Augusta Tech students. Pictured are, from left, ATC President Terry Elam, Alesia Brown and Danny Waugh of Lowe's and Hensley. More...
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• article has image Wimberly House Summer Camp
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