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GWM hosts PBS star and GCSU professor

GWM hosts PBS star and GCSU professor

GWM hosts PBS star and GCSU professor

Season 2 of the PBS program, View Finders, is airing in over 55 million homes throughout the United States. The unscripted show follows two photographers as they search for beautiful places to photograph.

Davis proposes change to how BOC chairman is chosen

Discussion about the fairness of the appointment of the chairman was brought up during the Feb. 8 meeting. Commissioner Emily Davis made a motion to look into amending the ordinance regarding chairmanship to alternate chairman by district each January rather than be voted in by majority vote.
Georgia College’s Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy, in partnership with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, celebrated former first lady Sandra Deal’s 83rd birthday by reading to 12 classes at the Baldwin County Early Learning Center. Books were chosen based on themes of winter and snow. COURTESY OF GCSU

Georgia College’s Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy, in partnership with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, celebrated former first lady Sandra Deal’s 83rd birthday by reading to 12 classes at the Baldwin County Early Learning Center. Books were chosen based on themes of winter and snow. COURTESY OF GCSU

GCSU’s Deal Center delivers childhood literacy lessons

Georgia College’s Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy, in partnership with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, celebrated former first lady Sandra Deal’s 83rd birthday Feb. 1 by reading to 12 classes at the Baldwin County Early Learning Center.
Know your Neighbor

Know your Neighbor

Know your Neighbor: Bridgette Smith

Bridgette Smith has found a sense of community in Milledgeville with the help of coffee. Smith moved from McDonough in the fall of 2022 to open Morning Grind Coffee with her husband Jared Smith.
Dalton Hill

Dalton Hill

Baldwin mourns loss of promising dirt bike racer

The Baldwin community mourns the loss of 12-year-old Dalton Hill, who tragically passed last weekend during a racing accident at Echeconnee Motocross in Crawford County.Dalton is the son of Phillip and Emily Ethridge Hill.
Former Miss USA to headline GMC’s next speaker series

Former Miss USA to headline GMC’s next speaker series

Former Miss USA to headline GMC’s next speaker series

Georgia Military College and NewDay USA are honored to welcome Deshauna Barber as the speaker for the first NewDay USA Leadership Speaker Series event of 2025 on Friday, March 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the GMC Theatre at the NewDay USA Center of Leadership.A U.S.
Terry Kennedy

Terry Kennedy

Exchange Bank promotes Terry Kennedy

The Exchange Bank Board of Directors and John C. Childs, Jr., president and CEO, are pleased to announce the promotion of Terry Kennedy to senior vice president – chief human resources officer/chief business development officer.

CRIME WATCH

Man steals beanie from storeOn Jan. 29, law enforcement was dispatched to the Jet Food Store, at 1740 N. Columbia St., in reference to a theft.An employee advised that an unknown male entered the store and proceeded to grab a green beanie and walk towards the bathroom area.
David Spivey

David Spivey

Man charged with felony for multiple store thefts

A Milledgeville man with a record of shoplifting ended up in Putnam County jail after he committed the act one too many times, according to police records. He was stopped by store personnel as he tried to leave in a motorized shopping cart.A few weeks earlier, on Dec.