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Miss Black Georgia to speak

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Thursday, December 27. 2012
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The Christian Women of Rachel Missionary Baptist Church invite you to join them in their first Women’s Ministry of 2013, Saturday, Jan. 5 at 10:00 a.m. They are blessed to have the reigning Miss Black Georgia, Jordan Riles, be their guest speaker. Please encourage your young women to come out, because the women of Rachel Baptist know that they too, will be blessed and motivated by her words of encouragement! The theme for the year of 2013 is “From Victim to Victor - Defeating the Giants in Your Life!” [Full Story »] 

News-Banner to be closed

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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The Baxley News-Banner will close for Christmas on Monday, Dec. 24 at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 25 and Wednesday, Dec. 26. The office will reopen Thursday, Dec. 27 at 8:30 a.m. The deadline for the Dec. 26 issue will be Friday, Dec. 21 at 12:00 p.m. [Full Story »] 

Local schools being proactive on safety

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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On the heels of one of the deadliest school shootings in United States history, the Appling County School System would like for the community to know that it is being proactive with regard to school safety. [Full Story »] 

Arrests told by Baxley Police

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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The following are highlights of incidents that were handled by officers of the Baxley Police Department over the past several days. [Full Story »] 

Deloach gives weekly recap

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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Sheriff Benny Deloach would like to report the following activity of the Appling County Sheriff’s Office.

Dec. 9, answered a call to Odell Bullard Road in reference to a theft. A complainant stated an unknown person stole her syrup boiler from her residence. Investigation continues. [Full Story »] 

City approves installation of solar panels at City Hall

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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By Renee O’Quinn

The Baxley City Council held discussions about the installation of solar panels at City Hall at the regular meeting held Dec. 11. Mayor Rigdon presented pictures of a building with solar panels and stated that he and the city manager have been meeting with representatives of Hannah Solar about potential savings to power bills if they went with solar panels. [Full Story »] 

Post Offices open Christmas Eve and New Years Eve

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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‘Tis the season and for the 237th year the U.S. Postal Service is ready for The Best Holiday Ever! With 365 million packages expected to be delivered this holiday season – a 20 percent increase over 2011. [Full Story »] 

Get your Appling County cookbook

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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The Baxley-Appling County Board of Tourism has collected the best recipes from residents of Appling County and compiled them into an attractive keepsake cookbook. [Full Story »] 

Ho! Ho! Ho! ‘Tis the season to be ripped off!!

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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By Chief James Godfrey

As we approach the festive Yuletide season, there are several things to keep in mind. This is the time of the year to be extra cautious. As the saying goes (all that glitters is not silver and gold). Con artist are quite busy lurking around looking for easy prey through out the up coming holidays. [Full Story »] 

Board of Tourism seeks nominations for inductees to the 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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Once again the Baxley-Appling County Board of Tourism is seeking nominations for an inductee to the 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame. The individual must be a present or previous resident of Appling County who has greatly influenced athletics on a local, state, regional or national level. He or she may be an accomplished athlete. The inductee must be retired for a period of two years from his/her active sport. [Full Story »] 

ATC anounces holiday campus closure schedule

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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Altamaha Technical College campuses will close during the holidays with the following schedules: Jesup and Golden Isles campuses will close Friday, December 21, and reopen Wednesday, January 2. Baxley, Hazlehurst and Camden campuses will close December 17, and reopen January 2. [Full Story »] 

Appling County awarded Federal Funds for Emergency Food and Shelter Program

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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Appling County has been awarded Federal Funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program.
Appling County has been chosen to receive $10,303.00 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county. [Full Story »] 

Arts Council to present Arts Showcase

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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The Arts Council of Appling County proudly presents the third annual Classical Arts Showcase to be held January 12 at 7:00 p.m. This year the performance will be at the First Baptist Church, Baxley. [Full Story »] 

Appling County School System is data driven for student achievement

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Wednesday, December 19. 2012
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Superintendent Scarlett Copeland is proud to report that Appling County School System is data driven for student achievement! The superintendent has visited all six of the system schools and indicated that all schools are doing an outstanding job on benchmarking or testing students each 8 ? weeks. All teachers and administrators then collaborate about the data and decide what methods need to be employed to assist students if they are having difficulty, as well as how to accelerate students who need to move on. Data rooms have been created in each school and are utilized to study each teacher’s classroom and also individual students within the classroom. This method assures that assistance is given to all students in the correct areas for improvement or acceleration. [Full Story »] 

New fields cause dilemma

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Wednesday, December 12. 2012
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By Matt Gardner

The Appling County Board of Commissioners held their regularly scheduled meeting on December 4 and during the meeting Appling County Recreation Board representative Jimmy Twiggs spoke to the commission about the T-Ball fields that were approved as part of the SPLOST approved in 2012. Twiggs stated that the current plan is to build two fields that would be 100 ft., from behind home plate to the outfield fence, and could only be utilized for six weeks each year during T-ball season. Twiggs informed the commissioners that the recreation board discussed the possibility of moving the fence further back to make each field 200 ft., which would allow other youth to play on the fields due to T-ball season being completed before most other leagues begin to play. Twiggs also shared that the new fields would meet requirements to allow Appling County to host weekend youth baseball and softball tournaments due to the length of the field and grass infields. [Full Story »] 
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