Planters Electric to provide opportunities for local students

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Planters Electric has two opportunities to help local students further their educational experiences. The two programs reach out to high school juniors and seniors, as well as undergraduate college students. For juniors, the company is offering an all-expense-paid trip to the 2020 Washington Youth Tour, which will take place this summer, June 18-25. Three students will be chosen as delegates […]

Georgia shooting ranges host ‘Give It A Shot’ classes

Little to no experience operating a firearm or bow? We have a great opportunity for you with several upcoming scheduled “Give It a Shot” classes, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD). These classes are open to men and women age 12 years old and up, and will focus on those with little to no […]

Beware: Buy licenses only from Georgia DNR website

Buyer Beware! A scam license website has been detected by the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division. This site appears to be active in both North Georgia and on the coast. This scam website appears as an advertisement during a Google Search for “Georgia Fishing License.” The site then allows you to enter your personal information, such as name, date of […]

What’s Next?

BOE MEETINGS The Burke County Board of Education has set its 2020 regular monthly meetings for the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. Meetings will be held at the board office located at 789 Burke Veterans Parkway in Waynesboro. TAX OFFICE CLOSED The Burke County Tax Commissioner’s Office will be closed on Friday, Feb. 7, so that staff […]

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LOOKING BACK

{this week in Burke County history}

10 YEARS AGO – JANUARY 27, 2010 Twenty three year-old Darrick Lake, Jr. was under arrest after firing 14 shotgun blasts into a Briarwood apartment. Though five people were inside, no one was hit. Georgia Power President and CEO Mike Garrett was scheduled to be the guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Burke County Chamber of Commerce. Bobbie […]

ERNIE AND ME


I love Ernest Hemingway. I’m a fan. Granted, Brother Ernest died when I was eight years old, and it would be several years later before I was forced to read The Old Man And The Sea for the first time when I was a junior in high school. At that time, when football and girls were pretty much the only […]

A SIGN OF THE TIMES


“A sign of the times” has a biblical as well as a popular reference. Anything regarded, usually negatively, as emblematic of the current time period can be called a sign of the times. Bob Dylan popularized a song called, “The Times They Are A-Changin” during the turbulent Sixties. We see change all around us. Stores spring up where there used […]

WHAT’S YOUR DREAM


I have a dream. I want to be a dent in the explosion that reawakens America. I want to be a tiny sliver in the crack that allows the sun to shine and the earth to feel its warmth without someone asking who’s gonna pay the bill. What’s your dream? When I was a little girl, I had such a […]

THE SEATTLE MEDIUM AT 50 – STILL PRESSING ON FOR OUR COMMUNITY



Co-publisher/Editor The Seattle Medium This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Northwest largest, most read, most widely circulated, and most influential African American newspaper – The Seattle Medium. On Jan. 15, 1970 The Seattle Medium distributed its first edition throughout Seattle and ushered in a new era of advocacy, narration, truth telling, journalism and activism for the local African […]