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During Car-Mart’s 17th annual Holiday Toy Drive, the dealership collected toys from customers and the community. Showing off the toys are (L-R): General Manager Jae Minor, Office Clerk Maria Perez, Service Advisor Nancy Byrd, Senior Account Representative Jada Simpson, and The Beverly Knight Olson staff: Haleigh Cruce, Jessica Dunkling, and Hannah Robinson. CONTRIBUTED

During Car-Mart’s 17th annual Holiday Toy Drive, the dealership collected toys from customers and the community. Showing off the toys are (L-R): General Manager Jae Minor, Office Clerk Maria Perez, Service Advisor Nancy Byrd, Senior Account Representative Jada Simpson, and The Beverly Knight Olson staff: Haleigh Cruce, Jessica Dunkling, and Hannah Robinson. CONTRIBUTED

America’s Car-Mart delivers 188 toys to children’s hospital

Bailey Ballard
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
America’s Car-Mart in Milledgeville delivered 188 toys to Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, part of the Atrium Health Levine Children’s family, in Macon.
Izaiah Taylor

Izaiah Taylor

GMC mourns loss of student

Staff Reports
Thursday, December 18, 2025
A Georgia Military College football player died Dec. 15 after his home in Rock Cliff Court, Stone Mountain, caught on fire.According to the Atlanta First broadcast, the homeowner was 21-year-old Izaiah Taylor’s grandfather. He confirmed the morning of Dec. 16 that Taylor had perished in the fire.
GMC Alumnus Maj. Gen. Reginald Neal, U.S. Army (retired, right) was appointed to serve as assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Security, and Preparedness. COURTESY OF GMC

GMC Alumnus Maj. Gen. Reginald Neal, U.S. Army (retired, right) was appointed to serve as assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Security, and Preparedness. COURTESY OF GMC

GMC alumnus Neal receives presidential appointment

News Staff
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Georgia Military College announced that GMC Alumnus (JC c/o ‘89) Maj. Gen. Reginald Neal, U.S. Army (retired), was appointed by the president of the United States to serve as the assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Security, and Preparedness.
CRIME WATCH

CRIME WATCH

CRIME WATCH

News Staff
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Individual shoplifts nicotine patchesOn Dec. 10, law enforcement was dispatched to Walmart at 2592 N.Columbia St. in reference to a shoplifter in custody.

ARREST REPORTS

News Staff
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Dec. 10Derick Jumall Brown, 21, of Milledgeville failure to appearRicky Lee Butts, 56, of Milledgeville - cruelty to children (third degree); simple battery (family violence)Faye Marie Knopf, 62, of Eatonton - theft by shoplifting (misdemeanor)Dec. 11Shabar Ahmier Bass Jr.

GWM’s Democracy in Georgia:

News Staff
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Jim Crow and the fight for voting rights“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood,” Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in 1963 within his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington.
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