Jason White nominated for country music award




He was raised in Burke County and could be the next Georgia Country Male Artist of the Year. Singer/songwriter Jason White has been nominated for one of Georgia-Country.com’s top awards for 2013. Fifty male performers were selected, and after one week of online voting Jason is in the topsix. “It took a lot of votes to get that far ahead,” […]

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?



After an autopsy is completed and the GBI has finished collecting evidence, a file will be sent to District Attorney Ashley Wright, special Agent Morgan said. She will essentially determine if the officers acted within the line of duty and may choose to close the case or present evidence to a grand jury.

Political Cartoon



New approach for job growth



A topic that receives little attention is the lack of employment in Burke County. Our unemployment has hovered around 12 percent for some time. The fact that many companies are reducing hours or closing their doors all together may make the question of unemployment a fact of life or an inevitability. Maybe unemployment is like the weather: A topic we […]

DADDYWISE

Don Lively

The new Ray-Bans made me think of Daddy. Anybody who knew Daddy would probably consider that a strange statement. Daddy never wore sunglasses a day in his life as far as I know. He also never wore blue jeans. Or gloves. Or short sleeved shirts. Or tennis shoes. But it was the new sunglasses that got me to thinking about […]

THE SIMPLE LIFE

Jim Shumard

I am up here in the Tennessee Mountains in Sewanee again this summer studying for another doctorate. In fact I am typing here on the porch overlooking an immense bluff and gazing across at mountain hillsides and fog creeping through the valleys. Everything looks calm and peaceful and there is a wonderful symmetry to the scene. They call this the […]

ALL THE GIRLS I LOVED BEFORE

F. Leslie Jenkins Jr.

I guess I loved her even before the doctor laid me in her arms. While I was still nestled warm and snuggly in her womb I loved her. She, of course, was my mother Florence Haeseler Jenkins. I had known and loved her for eighty years when she went home to Jesus. We had a long love life together. Besides […]

Letter to the Editor

Thanks for Memorial Day

EDITOR: Many thanks to you and your staff for the recent photos and writing concerning the American Legion Post 120’s Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 27. I wish to also thank Jesse Palmer III at First National Bank for his assistance in having the American flag banners placed on Liberty and Peace streets. Also, thanks to the Waynesboro Police […]

Looking Back



10 years ago – June 11, 2003 Governor Sonny Perdue signed the state’s $16 billion 2004 budget which included $2 million for a new Burke County Library. BCHS graduate Phillip Smith landed a role in an off Broadway show in New York City. Fiamm Technologies announced it would be adding employees after investing more than $1 million in new equipment. […]

Robert Lee Bostic



Dea. Robert Lee Bostic, 63, entered eternal rest on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at Optim Medical Center Jenkins in Millen, Georgia. The Jenkins County native was a 1968 graduate of Burgess Landrum High School and a member of Carswell Grove Baptist Church. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam era. He received an honorable discharge, and […]