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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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education
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 ...
education
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 ...
education
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. ...
