Entries by Staff Writer

Daniel Webster Kennedy, 82, died April 21, 2013 in Brunswick. Kennedy was a life long resident of Appling County. He was born June 3, 1930 to the late James and Lois Sellers Kennedy and was a member of Ten Mile Creek Baptist Church. He was a farmer and a poultry grower. [Full Story »] 

Connie Davis Mincey, 74, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013. A native of Appling County, Mrs. Mincey was born Nov. 7, 1938 to the late James Vernon and Willard Beasley Shipes. She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church. Connie was retired from Douglas and Harper Manufacturing and was the world’s best Nanny. [Full Story »] 

Brown Funeral Home announces the funeral service for Gwendolyn Drake Powell, who passed away Thursday, April 18, 2013. She was born August 5, 1948. [Full Story »] 

The Georgia Department of Transportation announced that a new traffic signal is becoming operational at the intersection of U.S. 1/S.R. 4 and S.R. 15 in the City of Baxley. The new signal will be flashing in test mode on Thursday, May 2. [Full Story »] 

Sheriff Benny Deloach would like to report the following activity of the Appling County Sheriff’s Office.

April 19, answered a call to Patterson Road in reference to a domestic dispute. A girlfriend and a boyfriend had an altercation, which led to the arrest of Joseph Tyrone Gray, 30, of Baxley. Gray was charged with disorderly conduct. [Full Story »] 

Superintendent Scarlett M. Copeland, Transportation Director, Richard Riddle and the Appling County Board of Education are proud to announce they have obtained two Blue Bird propane fueled school buses. Appling County School System is only the second in the State of Georgia to have propane fueled buses and the first system in South Georgia. The Superintendent and Board of Education have made a long-term commitment to provide students in this system with the best in transportation while being highly cost effective with local funding for fuel. [Full Story »] 

All Christians in Appling County are encouraged to unite together as one Body on Saturday morning, May 4, at 9:00 a.m. to begin a Celebration Walk beginning at the Ernest Parker Park (old Jr. High) and ending at the Baxley Church of God with a Prayer and Worship Service, which should end around 11:00 a.m. The Walk will begin with prayer by the Rev. Johnny Blair of First African Baptist Church and stops will be made along the way to pray at the Courthouse, Hospital and Board of Education and finishing at the Church of God with the service. [Full Story »] 

Connor Wilkerson, a senior football player for Appling County High School, has committed and will be joining the LaGrange College Panthers. [Full Story »] 

By Phil Phillips

On Monday, April 22 the Appling Christian Eagle baseball team traveled to Valdosta to face the Open Bible Warriors in a contest to determine the GCAA Region II Champion. The only region loss suffered by the Eagles this season came at the hands of the Warriors earlier this month. [Full Story »] 

Jessica Tomberlin and Dillon Edenfield proudly announce the birth of their daughter, Jayna Leigh Edenfield. [Full Story »] 

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Fennell of Baxley are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kimberly Fennell, to Justin James, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rick James of Odum. [Full Story »] 

By Charles N. Davis

Buried somewhere in my parents’ house in Watkinsville is a stack of aged newspapers – copies of the Athens Banner-Herald, The Oconee Enterprise and the dearly departed Athens Observer. You see, in my family, community newspapers have always been the chroniclers of family lore, of scholastic achievements, of the fleeting fame of youth. [Full Story »] 

I was walking to the mailbox yesterday to see if the IRS had any more requests to make of me. The Postal Service is having a row about mail delivery on Saturday. I was wishing Saturday was the only day they did deliver. I was barefooted. I had been in the garden pulling the newly sprouted thistles of whatever part of Hades they come from. When I tired of that I started to the mailbox. As I was slowly and painfully making my way across those gravel rocks I saw a small pickup coming, pulling a small boat. The truck pulled up and stopped right next to me. An elderly gentleman leaned toward me and started right in giving explanation why he stopped. [Full Story »]