Entries by Staff Writer

Judge E. M. Wilkes, III releases the list of names for the Traverse Jury for April 29 at 9:30 a.m. The following people are on the list. [Full Story »] 

The Appling County High School is hosting a Fuel Up To Play 60 Pep Rally along with a taste testing event introducing various food items for students and community feedback for next year. The event will be held on April 26 beginning at 3:00 p.m. and ending at 4:30 p.m.  The Pep Rally will include healthy eating plays; music, taste testing new foods items from various vendors, fun activities, and the introduction to the High School’s new Smoothie Bar “Sailing with a Smoothie”, and much more… This is going to be very important for students to have a voice in what they like to eat. Students’ this is your opportunity to CHOOSE which new food items you would like to be served in your cafeteria for the upcoming year! [Full Story »] 

Attention Veterans: again it is time to place names on the Veterans Monument. Effective immediately they need your names and DD-214’s. The cost is still $40.00 per name. They will be taking names until June 1, 2013. [Full Story »] 

Georgia Baptist Children’s Homes and Family Ministries will be hosting its Second Annual Ride and Rally for Kids Motorcycle Ride to benefit GBCH and FM. Join them on April 20 at the Baxley Campus for this worthwhile ride. [Full Story »] 

This past week my two sons, Cole and Jacob, attended a wakeboard camp in Florida. For those not familiar with the sport, wakeboarding is a type of water sport such as skiing or kneeboarding. [Full Story »] 

When we arrived in Clarksville to spend Spring Break with our three youngest grandsons, I handed Trey, Jakey, and Will bags of Easter candy since we had not been there for their Easter activities. Their faces plummeted. [Full Story »] 

Last spring, I was feeding the fish from my dock and saw a small gator come up and begin eating the floating fish food. I started grunting like a baby gator to see if another one would pop up. It did. Scared the crap out of me when I turned around and there he was. I don’t have a witness but I am sure I made it off this fifty-foot dock in about 4 steps. After catching my breath and calming down, rather than shoot the creature, I called the erstwhile gator trapper extraordinaire, “Gator” Preston. They say Gator can trap or snare anything from a bullfrog to a buffalo so I figured he was the man for the job. [Full Story »] 

B. J. and I have made the Bahamas and the Caribbean a kind of second home. We have cruised there six times and we are in the process of booking yet another cruise to the awesome Western Caribbean in the not-too-distant future. The blue clear Caribbean is funtabulous and the tropical islands are balmy, beautiful and dreamy. [Full Story »] 

Swain Funeral Home announces the death of Hulda Summerall Baker on March 30, 2013 at her residence. Mrs. Baker was born Oct. 2, 1917 to Aldine and Willie Summerall and was married to Henry Grady Baker, Sr., She was a member of First Baptist Church where she was an active member of her Sunday school class. Mrs. Baker was a charter member of Colonel Daniel Appling Chapter of DAR and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a life long resident of Appling County. [Full Story »] 

Martha L. Crosby, 70, of Blackshear, died suddenly Monday morning (April 1, 2013) at Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross. [Full Story »] 

Wanda Quillen Dixon, 60, died Sunday, March 31, 2013 in Waycross. She was born Feb. 18, 1953 in Sullivan County, Tenn. Wanda was married to Charles H. Dixon for 41 years. She lived her whole married life in Georgia. Her parents are Elaine Culbertson and the late James E. Quillen. Mrs. Dixon was a member of Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church. She retired from the Appling County Board of Education. [Full Story »] 

Ginger Louise Harris, 42, passed away early Wednesday morning, April 3, 2013, at the Pierce County Nursing Home following a long illness. [Full Story »] 

Brown Funeral Home announces the death of Allifair Williams Jones on Monday morning, March 25, 2013 at the University of Miami Vistas Hospice following an extended illness. Mrs. Jones was born in Baxley on Sunday, May 27, 1923 to the late James Campfield and the late Irene Floyd Williams. She attended the Baxley Training School. Allifair was united in holy matrimony to the late Perry Jones. She was a member of St. Paul African Methodist Church in Miami where she served as a loyal and dedicated Usher. [Full Story »]