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July 30, 2008  RSS feed
COUNTIN' DOWN SUMMER
Local kids enjoy a day in the sun as their summer vacation dwindles down. Above, Shelby Quick, at left, a rising first-grader at Faith Christian Academy (FCA), and Kaylee McBride, a Waynesboro Primary School kindergartener, played in the shade on a tire swing. Area schools will begin over the next two weeks. More...
FBI releases details in First National fraud
By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com

A Midville mother has confessed to stealing more than a halfmillion dollars from First National Bank. Last Thursday, Linda Burch, 44, a bookkeeper who worked for the Waynesboro bank 18 years, told FBI agents she'd been stealing regularly for more than a decade. More...

Tax free holiday begins Thursday
By Gracie Shepherd Intern

Waynesboro school supply buyers can shop till they drop with Georgia's upcoming tax-free weekend. The holiday, instituted by Gov. Sonny Perdue, will run from 12:01 am on July 31 to midnight Aug. 3. More...

Local residents could be affected by insurer's mistake
By Anne Marie Kzyer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com

Personal information on employees of Waynesboro, Burke County and the State of Georgia could have been compromised last week in a massive mail out by the state's largest health insurer. More...

 Breaking News
• Neglected Children's Home Photos
Photos from inside & outside the home where 11 siblings were found without running water and electricity are now posted on our website. Visit www.thetruecitizen.com and click on photo galleries. More...
• article has image Eleven siblings removed from home
• Waynesboro man killed in wreck
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 News
• article has image Still Swimming
Local woman has been teaching kids to swim for 35 years
The water splashes and Lexie TenHuisen makes her rounds from child to child. That's what she's been doing every summer for the past 35 years. Lexie has taught all ages, from babies to adults. In her lessons she covers backstroke, sidestroke, freestyle, straddle the noodle and water safety. More...
• Low turn-out predicted for Tuesday's runoff
• Correction
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 Editorial
• Why So Few Voters?
What are we to make of the fact that voter turnout in the July 15th Georgia General Primary was less than half that of the February 5th Presidential Primary? Here are the numbers: Statewide, more than 2 million Georgians cast their ballots in February in the presidential primaries of the two major parties. On July 15th less than 900,000 voted in the race for the U.S. More...
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• Looking Back
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 Sports
• Two local youth qualify for statewide golf tournament
Two junior golfers from Burke County qualified to compete in the Georgia State Golf Association's annual statewide tournament. Jay Mobley and Riley Marchman, both 10 years old, earned their spot in the Junior Sectional Challenge Match by playing well in GSGA tournaments held earlier this summer. More...
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• article has image Local athlete plays in World Series
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 For The Record
• Woman gets jail for fatal crash
A Waynesboro woman will spend the next five years in jail for a wreck that killed a teenage boy riding in her car. Martha Ann Braddy, 36, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Carl C. More...
• From the Blotter
• Waynesboro Police
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 Obituaries
• article has image Mrs. Iris Hurst Mattson
Mrs. Iris Hurst Mattson, 72, of Waynesboro, Ga., beloved wife of Dennis A. Mattson, entered into rest Friday, July 25, 2008, at Burke Medical Center. Funeral services were at 4 p.m., Monday, July 28, at Sardis Baptist Church with the Rev. Mark Joyner and the Rev. Sterling Bargeron officiating with a special eulogy given by Bill Edmonds. More...
• Mr. Willard Stephen 'Steve' Skinner
• article has image Cards of Thanks
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 Fields & Yields
• article has image In the Furrow
Lesser Cornstalk Borers Hit Hard
Farmers are used to facing challenges. It seems that this year is providing more than its share. This past week I have seen severe damage to grain sorghum caused by the lesser corn stalk borer (LCSB). The larvae and moths have been found in high numbers in peanuts and some soybean fields as well. More...
• Burke County Agricultural Calendar of Events
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 Burke Happenings
• Burke Happenings
Free school supplies The Sportsmen Social Club will give away free school supplies 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in the vacant lot next to Regions Bank on Sixth Street. Parents are not allowed to pick up supplies for their children. More...
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 Church News
• Church News
Forest Hill Forest Hill Baptist Church will hold annual revival services Monday Friday, Aug. 4-8, at 7:30 nightly. The Rev. Chavous Boyd, pastor of Bark Camp and First Baptist of Sardis, will be guest minister. The Rev. Larry Boyd is pastor. More...
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 People
• Jurors drawn for Superior Court
Jurors have been drawn for the April 2008 term of Superior Court criminal/civil session with Judge J. Carlisle Overstreet presiding. Jurors are to report Monday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. The list of jurors, which contains four deferred jurors, includes Abraham Bostic Jr. of Waynesboro; Joseph A. Jeselnik, Waynesboro; Anderson Brihm, Millen; Karen D. More...
• article has image Miss Dixon to marry Mr. Henderson
• article has image Miss Holbrook, Mr. Broadwater unite in marriage
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