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May 13, 2009

In the Boss Hog Cook-off

Mount Dora takes home the bacon

Mount Dora Bar-B-Que is living high on the hog. Saturday afternoon, the threemember crew from their namesake hometown near Orlando, Fla., took home the bacon in the fourth annual Boss Hog Cookoff. They smoked out three dozen teams to win the Georgia state championship title and qualify for a draw in the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational. More...

For teens, young adults

Authority offers 100 summer jobs

By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com

A hundred or more summer jobs will soon be opening up for Burke County teens and young adults. According to Al Chandler, acting executive director of the Richmond-Burke Job Training Authority, jobs will be available to residents ages 14-24. More...

Midville man dies in rollover

From staff reports

A Midville man was killed in a Sunday morning wreck in south Richmond County. According to Richmond County authorities, Perry Baxter Oglesby, 25, was driving on Deans Bridge Road when he apparently lost control of his vehicle and ended up in the median. More...

Bear brings home three state titles from Georgia Olympics

By Anne Marie Kyzer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com

Damion Johnson felt good going into the Class AAA track and field championship last Thursday, but he had no way of knowing how good he would feel coming home on Saturday. The Burke County High School senior walked away with five medals and two trophies from the event known as the Georgia Olympics, the best performance ever from a Burke County athlete. More...

Breaking News

•	Spartan sluggers advance to final four

The Edmund Burke Academy Spartans advanced to the GISA Final Four today after hammering Piedmont Academy in the... More...

•	Spartans down Piedmont in game 1 of quarterfinals

•	Burke Co. track star signs with college program

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News

•	Program to help families raising relatives' children

Rosa Davis has been rearing children for more than a half-century. The Waynesboro greatgrandmother began her own family with the birth of her oldest son in 1955. Then, as her children were nearing adulthood, she took in an infant grandchild in 1977. Since then, she has welcomed three other grandchildren and even a great-grandchild into her home to live. More...

•	Burke WMAs spared in downsizing

•	Burke native authors book

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Editorial

•	Super speeder law

By now, most Georgians are aware of the great need for trauma care in our state and of the importance of the "golden hour," that first hour after a traumatic injury that is so vitally important for survival. This is particularly true for the more than 1 million Georgians primarily from rural north and south Georgia who live more than 50 miles from a trauma center. More...

•	Political Cartoon

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RFD

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Sports

•	Burke County football shows added strength for next year

The thunderous clashes heard in the hallway at Burke County High School aren't coming from the sky. They're coming from the dungeon downstairs, where the Bears are getting ready for football season. The weight room is packed each day with football players testing their limits and building strength. More...

•	Cleaning up for company

•	Five Bears collect all-region baseball honors

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For The Record

•	From the Blotter

Tailgating A Waynesboro man called police when he discovered someone had lifted his tailgate. The Martin Luther King Drive resident went out to his carport last Monday morning to find the tailgate missing from his 1987 Chevrolet S-10. More...

•	Waynesboro man wanted for night club shooting

•	Sardis man gets 70 years for Screven robberies

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Obituaries

•	Mother of Retired State Rep. Alberta Anderson, Willie Mae Anderson, Passes In Seattle, Washington

Veteran's Day Nov. 11, 1923, was a very special day for the Bennett family. On that day in Gough, Burke County, Ga., the late Bessie Lou Bennett, a school teacher, and the late Charlie Bennett, Sr., an overseer, farmer, became the proud parents of their second of eight children, Willie Mae Bennett. More...

•	Mrs. Mary M. Sikes

•	Mr. John Anthony Karnes, Sr.

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Fields & Yields

•	In the Furrow

Oxygen Depletion in Ponds

We often think of oxygen depletion in ponds when we have drought conditions. This is the time of year when we can see dissolved oxygen problems whether there is dry weather or not. A number of factors may work together to cause fish kills in the presence of plenty of rain. More...

•	Home & Garden Tips

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Ag Briefs

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Burke Happenings

•	Burke Happenings

Class of '64 reunion Waynesboro High & Industrial School Alumni Class of 1964 will have a final organizational meeting for their reunion 1 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Coradell's Wedding Chapel. Retired Educators The Burke County Retired Educators Association will meet 3 p.m., Thursday, May 14 at the Burke County Senior Citizens Center. More...

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Church News

•	Church News

New Birth Missionary New Birth Missionary Baptist Church will sponsor its annual God's Rainbow program 4 p.m. Saturday, May 16. Mary Kingcannon of WKZK Radio Station and Trumpet and Zion Fellowship Ministries of Augusta will be the featured speaker. More...

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People

•	Annual Cotillion/Beautillion held

The Burke County Debutante/ Debonair Society held its annual Cotillion/Beautillion Saturday, May 9, at Burke County High School. Each year the society, which was established in 1991 and made up of approximately 25 members, selects young men and women based on academics and other standards. Each student selected receives an academic scholarship. More...

•	Hoover, Walden to marry June 6

•	Davis, Stang to exchange vows

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School News

•	It's Showtime!

Turn back the clock and turn up the show tunes. Grease will grace the stage in Waynesboro this weekend. Burke County High School students will present the fun and favored 1950s musical Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16, at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium. More...

•	BCMS Cubs with Character

•	Ladies and gentlemen

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