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  Appling County Middle School held the annual School Spelling Bee on Thursday, December 11, 2025. Team winners from each grade level participated. They were Jayce Hall, David Hayes, Gunner Bass, Maggie Cowan, Glenn Shumans, Emma Prencke, Kallen Blandin, Gracie Stewart, and Luke Campbell.  Seventh grader Glenn Shumans claimed the ACMS Spelling Bee champion title…

  Appling County Retired Educators met on Wednesday, December 10, at Fourth District. Principal Garrett Cranford welcomed our group. The meeting was opened by ACREA President Patsy Buchanan. Retired Educator Gretchen Miles read a Christmas story to students. Academic Coach Jessica Edenfield brought students in Kindergarten through fifth grades to share Christmas memories and perceptions…

  During the month of December, the Pine Forest Garden Club goes out at night to look for homes and businesses that are beautifully decorated for the Christmas holidays. There are so many beautifully decorated homes and businesses this year that it was a difficult decision. After much deliberation, the Garden of the Month committee…

Appling Healthcare hosted its annual Christmas breakfast banquet on Thursday, December 4. Revolving tours were presented of the facility and its different areas and departments. The Radiology Department performs around 1,500 scans each month. “They don’t typically have any slow seasons,” said April Worth. The new pharmacy is located at the front, near the outpatient…

  Those who traveled past 391 Bay Street on Thursday may have seen a rather unorthodox potluck taking place as the Chamber hosted a Ribbon-Cutting for HMS To Go. Beneath the tent and drizzle of cold rain, guests huddled together to sample pizza burgers and turkey burgers, grilled ham & cheese, lemon cake, BBQ spaghetti,…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Appling County Public Library. The ladies of Crocheted with Love have been working on a special surprise for library patrons: a four-foot stable and Nativity.  The project began coming together this spring when they brainstormed how to create a display for the Christmas season that…

  The Annual Moonlight Madness event held in Baxley on Thanksgiving night was a big success this year for a lot of local shops. Many of them were packed and full of shoppers on Thanksgiving night, and were still packed the next day for Black Friday shopping.  

  Callie Brook Mullis, who attends Altamaha Elementary School, is the fifth-grade and Overall winner for the Satilla EMC Christmas Card Contest. Approximately 2,000 entries from elementary and primary schools were received from the Satilla service area. Grade-level winners and an overall winner were chosen from the submissions, and each received a Wal-Mart gift card.…

  Staff from Appling County Head Start/Early Head Start are pictured as we celebrate 60 years of Head Start.  Since its founding in 1965, Head Start has transformed the lives of more than 40 million children and families across the nation, providing comprehensive early learning and child care, better health and nutrition, and parent involvement…