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DeSoto’s Only Restaurant: Papa & Mama Chat’s Soul Food

There is a small restaurant in downtown DeSoto that serves take out and catering. Around the size of ...

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GSW announces 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award winners

By Chelsea Collins   AMERICUS – Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) has announced its most outstanding alumni for ...

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Area Beat Report December 6, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Hixon, Demarious Deante (Fine Paid), 37, Child support (Webster and Sumter ...

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SGTC hosts ‘Light Up Your Future’ event

By Su Ann Bird   AMERICUS – The South Georgia Technical College 8th annual “Light Up Your Future” ...

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Area Beat Report December 5, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Monts, Michael Timothy (In Jail), 39, Terroristic Threats and Acts/Cruelty to ...

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GSW commencement ceremony to be held December 14; Richard Woods to deliver keynote address

By Chelsea Collins   AMERICUS – Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) will hold its Fall 2023 Commencement ceremony ...

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Elections Worker Velma Coley Speaks out After Resigning in Protest

Velma Coley was a clerk responsible for Voter Registration and Absentee Ballots and was the Poll Manager at ...

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Mayor Lee Kinnamon Describes Rosalynn Carter’s Funeral Service in Atlanta

Mayor Lee Kinnamon gave an interview on December 4th, sharing what it was like to attend the funeral ...

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Public Safety Leaders Talk About Massive Coordination Effort During Funeral Procession

Sumter County Sherrif Eric Bryant gave an interview December 1rst expressing gratitude for the numerous agencies that worked ...

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Rosalynn Carter’s Return to Plains Remembered as Turning Point

Annette Wise, past president and current board member of the Plains Preservation and Historical Society, talked about how ...

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Marriages and Divorces in November

Marriages: Jonathan Oliver Bush and Sarah Elizabeth Lundquist with a ceremony date of 11/11/2023 and an application date ...

education

Glenn Bryant hired as SGTC Custodial Worker

By Su Ann Bird   AMERICUS – Glenn Martin Bryant of Americus has been hired as a Custodial ...

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Area Beat Report December 4, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Holloway, Mary (Bonded Out), 63, Exploitation and intimidation of disabled adults, ...

education

South Georgia Tech’s Horticulture program adds pollinator garden in memory of Rosalynn Carte

By Su Ann Bird   AMERICUS – Rosalynn Carter established a butterfly garden at her home in Plains, ...

education

Joseph Jolly hired as SGTC Maintenance Technician

By Su Ann Bird   AMERICUS – South Georgia Technical College graduate Joseph Jolly, formerly of Nashville, TN, ...

education

Georgia Southwestern receives $13K grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to promote alcohol awareness

By Chelsea Collins   AMERICUS — Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) is proud to announce the receipt of ...

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Area Beat report December 1 through 4, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Barnes, Ashley Nicole (In Jail), 38, Failure to Appear Curtis, Leslie ...

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Phoebe Sumter to hold Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 14, at 6 p.m.

By Marcus Johnson   AMERICUS – This holiday season, hope will shine bright at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center ...

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A Farewell to Rosalynn Carter

A dark chill hung over Plains in the early morning, with Christmas lights as the only illumination for ...

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“A Victorian Christmas” comes to the Windsor Hotel on December 1st

In conjunction with December First Friday events, the Sumter Players will bring an original performance, A Victorian Christmas, ...

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Rosalynn Carter’s funeral Service at Glenn Memorial United Methodist

Rosalynn Carter’s Atlanta funeral service took place at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on Nov. 28th, surrounded by ...

education

South Georgia Tech named best Community College in Georgia again by Intelligent.com

By Su Ann Bird   AMERICUS – South Georgia Technical College has been named as the Best Community ...

education

SGTC Aircraft Structural Instructor meets first female Blue Angel pilot

By Su Ann Bird   PENSACOLA, FL – A trip to the Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola Blue ...

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Area Beat Report November 28, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Deriso, Sharon Denise (Bonded Out), 34, Affray (Fighting) Thompson, Sayanna Shantrell ...

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Area Beat Report November 27, 2023

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Cheeseboro, Cedric Lamar (Sentenced), 36, Sentenced Dowell, Maurice Treon (In Jail), ...

education

Schley County High School Student to Graduate from SGTC Through Dual Enrollment

By Pat Peacock   AMERICUS – One day, Jessica Hines asked her son, Rowdy, a student at Schley ...

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Area Beat Report November 24 through 27

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Media Arrest Summary Adams, Michael Earl (In Jail), 60, Failure to Appear Burns-Williams, Devonte ...

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Former RCI National Program Director Laura McConatha Shares Memories of Rosalynn Carter

Laura McConatha, retired national program director for The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, gave an interview on Nov. ...

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