10 YEARS AGO – SEPT. 17, 2008 Motorists were concerned about a gasoline shortage after hurricanes disrupted supplies from the gulf coast. The price of gasoline temporarily skyrocketed to over $5 per gallon as drivers rushed to fill their tanks, thereby creating a shortage. The body of 42 year-old Isaiah Lockhart, Jr. was recovered from a ditch less than two […]
2018-09-12
WISHING
The dinner was great and the company was even better. My family gathers a lot for no particular reason other than we enjoy getting together, not just for the myriad weddings and baby showers and family reunions. We just seem to like each other. We like to reminisce. Apparently, we also like to wish. As in, “I wish I could […]
DEN OF THIEVES
Many of us are familiar with the Den of Thieves reference in the Bible. In Mathew 21:12- 13 which reads, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It […]
TURN THE PAGE
Some days I feel heavy. And it’s not a body weight thing nor is it necessarily a bad thing – just heavy. Right now I’m sitting at our round kitchen table all too aware of its smoothness. No edges. The blinds are open and the only light is the natural rays trickling in from a day that is fading. There’s […]
Dorothy Ann Hayes James
Blythe, GA – Dorothy “Dot” Ann Hayes James, 82, loving wife of 30 years to Ernie Plagwitz and the late Horace James, entered into her eternal rest Saturday afternoon, September 8, 2018 at her residence. Funeral services to celebrate her life will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday afternoon, September 13, 2018 in the James Funeral Home Chapel with the […]
Peggy Brinson Langham
Waynesboro, GA – Peggy Brinson Langham, 86, wife of Wyman Langham, entered into rest Friday, September 7, 2018. The family will receive friends Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. at Chance & Hydrick Funeral Directors. Mrs. Langham, daughter of the late Carnie Hardin and Lessie Shurling Brinson, was born in Burke County and retired as a […]
Larry L. Allen
Hephzibah, GA – Larry L. Allen, 72, passed away on Sunday, September 9, 2018, at the VA Hospital in Augusta. He was born on December 13, 1945, to the late Lee and Marie Sheppard Allen and spent most of his life in Burke County. He proudly served our nation in the Vietnam War as a member of the US Army. […]