One of Georgia's biggest garden tours will meander through the heart of Waynesboro. This year's Georgia Historic House and Garden Pilgrimage will be held exclusively in Burke County on Saturday, May 2. More...
Burke County taxpayers have dodged a nearly $70,000 legal bill. The Georgia Supreme Court decided Monday that the county was not liable for paying defense attorneys who represented Willie Palmer during his latest capital murder trial. Before the ruling, Burke County officials were in limbo as to whether the county would be responsible for Palmer's defense. More...
More convicted sex offenders are living in Burke County than ever. Right now, an all time high of 67 offenders are listed on the official registry. The count is up seven from the summer despite the departure of two sex offenders who moved to other areas and the removal of three offenders who completed their sentences under the First Offender Act. More...
Players named to all region basketball teams by coaches in Region 3-AAA were announced this week, including five Burke County High School athletes... More...
More Burke County residents are out of work. According to the Georgia Department of Labor's latest figures, the county's unemployment rate topped out at 11.5 percent in January 2009. While February figures are not yet available, January's numbers put Burke way over both the state and CSRA jobless rates of 8.6 and 9.5 percent, respectively. More...
It has become virtually impossible to avoid the unending flow of bad news about the economy. From the early morning hours, when reports from European and Asian markets forecast the direction of America's markets to the end of the news day when jobless numbers, plant closings, foreclosures and other economic indicators are reported ad nauseam. More...
Local golf enthusiasts don't have far to go to see some of the state's top juniors in action. More than 100 of Georgia's best high school golfers will tee off at the Waynesboro Country Club this weekend for the TaylorMade-Adidas Invitational. More...
A Waynesboro teen has been arrested for the Dec. 2007 shooting of his mother's boyfriend. Donald Cooper, 18, was arrested last Tuesday after dodging law enforcement officers for 15 months. According to Waynesboro police investigators, Sammie Habersham, then 51, was shot by Cooper when he tried to break up a fight between him and his brother. More...
Peggy J. Dotson, 59, of Waynesboro, Ga., entered into rest Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at Brentwood Terrace Health Center. Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 13, at Hebron Baptist Church, Waynesboro, with the Rev. Earl Saxon officiating. Interment will follow at Burke Memorial Gardens. More...
Prolonged and extreme drought in successive seasons, late spring freezes and uncontrolled weed problems have made the past few years inc redibly stressful on our perennial forages. As a result, many of our forage stands have thinned considerably. Some bermudagrass stands have gone from a solid stand to less than a 50% stand "just in the last year or so. More...
Blood Drive Shepeard Community Blood Center Bloodmobile will be in town 1-6 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, at the Wardlow Building, located at the corner of Seventh Street and Academy Avenue. All donors will be entered to win a $250 Visa gift card. There will be one winner each week. Please bring a donor card or picture ID. More...
Jones Grove Jones Grove Baptist Church will celebrate its 36th Usher's Anniversary 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 15. The Rev. Chavas Boyd, pastor of Bark Camp Baptist Church, will deliver the message. Bark Camp's ushers will be the special guests. Jones Grove pastor Rev. Melvin Habersham invites the public to attend. More...
Dale Lewis, a 1974 graduate of Edmund Burke Academy, has been awarded the Silver Beaver by the North Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America. More...
Burke County Public Schools celebrated National School Breakfast Week with all the fixings. Last week, school nutrition workers promoted breakfast to school children by offering a host of fresh fruits, yogurt parfait, cheese grits and other breakfast favorites on their menus. Students also had the chance to win prizes such as Wal-Mart gift cards and Falcons memorabilia by eating breakfast every day and competing in milk mustache contests. State and federal officials traveled to Waynesboro to join in the festivities as well. Above, Burke County Middle School nutrition assistant Essie Mae Jenkins, left, teaches Don Arnette, regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, and Cheryl Giddens of the Georgia Department of Education, how to make homemade whole wheat rolls. Giddens called the number of children eating breakfast in Burke County schools encouraging. More than 90 percent of children in the primary and elementary schools eat breakfast each morning. Burke County school nutrition director Donna Martin said she hoped the week's activities would encourage more middle and high school students to eat before class. More...
Jobless rate surges