With just eight weekends left until Christmas, there isn’t much time left to finish those shopping lists. More...

From Nov. 14-21, First Baptist Church will open as a dropoff location for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child – the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind.  More...

The True Citizen is collecting Thanksgiving recipes from Burke County’s youngest citizens.  Children in first grade and younger are invited to submit their own instructions for preparing their favorite holiday dishes for our annual “ More...

Jurors have been drawn for the October 2016 term of Superior Court Criminal Session to be held at 9 a.m. November 7, 2016 with Judge J. David Roper presiding. Jurors are to report at 9 a.m. More...

It’s a bird! It’s a … helicopter?  A Midville man showed up at the sheriff’s office complaining that a helicopter flew over his home.  More...

State Troopers from the Sylvania Post of the Georgia State Patrol investigated 19 traffic crashes during the month of October in Burke County. Sergeant First Class J.C. Lacienski said the traffic crashes resulted in 25 injuries and one death.  More...

Dorothy Mae “Dot” Portwood Hall, 84, of Midville passed away Sunday, October 23, 2016, at Burke Medical Center in Waynesboro. Her funeral service was held at 2 p.m. More...

Eddie Gray, Sr, transitioned from this life on October 3, 2016, in Fayetteville, N.C., at the home of his daughter.  More...

Mrs. Rosa Wadsworth of Newark, New Jersey, 97, entered into eternal rest on October 30, 2016. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 6, 2016, at McCullough Covenant Baptist Church, 508 McCullough Church Road, Waynesboro, Ga. More...

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