Burning ring of fire
     The Ring of Fire, a fair favorite, was set up on the midway Monday as other rides and
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Get spooked in Sardis
By Diana Royal Staff Writer
     As you walk through the foggy cemetery, you'll have no idea what's lingering behind the tombstones or what's waiting for you in the next room.
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Celebrity waiters taking orders for 'Fat Thursday'
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
     Twelve local celebrities will don their aprons next Thursday night to raise money for downtown Waynesboro.
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Leaders Luncheon
     Georgia Power Company and Southern Nuclear Operating
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From the Blotter
     Say no to crack A group of women tried to entice a woman who was recently released from rehab.
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Thieves pose as power company employees
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
     Deputies are looking for two men who dressed as power company workers and robbed a wheelchair-bound Sardis woman.
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Three hurt in transit wreck
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
     A Burke County transit bus driver was found at fault in an accident that injured him and two passengers.
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Willie Palmer will stay in Burke County while waiting on retrial
By Anne Marie Kyzer Staff Writer
     A local man convicted for the murders of his wife and step-daughter will stay in Burke County as he awaits retrial, but his attorneys may ask for his new trial to take place elsewhere.
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Court sentence goes to the dogs
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
     Burke County strays will have the benefit of $5,000 to help with vet bills and adoption services, compliments of a Hephzibah commissioner and his brother who were sentenced in Superior Court last week.
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Waynesboro Police
     The following arrests and citations were reported last week by the Waynesboro Police Department:
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Library News
     The Burke County Library, located at 130 Highway 24 South, has received the following books:
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Jurors drawn for Grand Jury
     Jurors have been drawn for the October 2006 term of Superior Court Grand Jury with Judge William M. Fleming presiding.
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Burkeland's Best for September
     The Burkeland Garden Club has chosen the home of Wayne and Brenda Lively as Burkeland's Best for the month of
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Bartow's Speir's Turnout Festival slated for Oct. 28
     Bartow Community Club will host the 15th Annual Speir's Turnout Festival 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. This year promises to be one of the biggest and best in the festival's history, according to Vendor Chairman Mary Sue Rachels. Homemade arts and crafts are encouraged this year, and the response
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Jurors drawn for Criminal Session
     Jurors have been drawn for the October 2006 term of Superior Court Criminal Session with Judge William M. Fleming Jr. presiding.
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Groups to pay when using school buses
By Anne Marie Kyzer Staff Writer
     Groups will have to pay when they use school buses, but officials plan to minimize the cost.
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