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March 29, 2007
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Historic wedding celebration Sat.
Miss Mary Lou Toombs, portrayed by Jane Ellyn Hardy, is getting married, and you're all invited to the party at the Robert Toombs House, where it's April, 1853. Volunteer re-enactors in authentic period dress will portray characters from the Toombs and Alexander families and entertain guests at the... More...
Annual Spring Tour of Homes to be held this Saturday

The annual Washington-Wilkes Tour of Homes 2007 gets underway Saturday morning, March 31, when tour headquarters at the Washington Wilkes Elementary School on East Street (off East Robert Toombs Avenue) opens at 9 a.m. for registration and directions. More...

Meeting today to show plans to regenerate Wills Memorial

Representatives from GMK Associates Design-Build Division, of Columbia, S.C., will be at a called public meeting between the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners and the Wills Memorial Hospital Authority this morning to describe and explain a plan for the "regeneration" of the hospital. More...

 News
•High school courses may get credit at Ga. technical colleges
Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School students who enter a technical college within two years of high school graduation may be eligible for college credit based on courses they took in high school. "Articulation" allows high school students to transfer credit for certain high school course w... More...
•WLTCo. to audition for female version of 'The Odd Couple'
•Kyle Brown gives Kiwanians overview of Wilkes agriculture
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 The Office Cat
•The Office Cat
Check out colorful Tour supplement
T yrekus (A.J.) Bowman, out standing Washington-Wilkes Tiger basketball player now playing for Augusta State College, was the subject of the sports photograph that won first place for Rainier Ehrhardth of The Augusta Chronicle in the Georgia Press Association Photo Clip Contest. The photogra... More...
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 Letters
•'Come on ... Let's make this work'
TO THE EDITOR: I wish I could attend the County Commissioner's meeting concerning the renovation of the hospital, but right now I still work in Augusta. As a long time member of the community and faithful taxpayer, I am somewhat taken aback with the apparent reluctance of the County Commission t... More...
•Thanks to all who helped for Little League Day celebration
•New dilemma confronts county
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 Sports
•Tigers get good region start, unbeaten in first three games
It was a slow week for the Washington Wilkes Tigers on the baseball diamond with only one game played since the last reporting. But that game marked the second region win for the home team giving them a 2-0 leg up as the part of the season that really counts gets started. (W-W played its third regi... More...
•Gilland named to All-Northeast Georgia team
•B-team beats Lincoln 10-7; seven Tigers post 11 hits
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 Obituaries
•Hazel Louise Lindsey Landrum
Graveside services for Hazel Louise Lindsey Landrum, 88, of Greene County were held Monday, March 26, 2007, at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Union Point with Rev. Leonard Ezell officiating. She died Saturday, March 24, at Greene Point Health Care Center. More...
•Joel Ray Myers
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 Worship
•Victory Baptist Church sets a special month of Sundays
Victory Baptist Church on the Newtown Road in Wilkes County will have a special month of super Sundays during April. Each Sunday will feature a special speaker for the services which are held at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. There will be special music presented during the week and a special message for thos... More...
•Musical message set for Sunday at Anthony Chapel Methodist
•God will and won't
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 Personalities
•Cattlemen award scholarship
Brett Walker (right), a junior at the University of Georgia majoring in Landscape Architecture, accepts the Wilkes County Cattlemen's Association scholarship from President Alan Bridges. The $500 presentation was made at the organization's March meeting. Brett is the daughter of Midge and Clay Walk... More...
•ACS RELAY FOR LIFE SET MAY 4-5
•Liz Grant selected for Homecoming scholarship finalist
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