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Atlanta-Gov. Sonny Perdue issued an executive order Wednesday declaring a State of Emergency for seven counties-which includes Decatur County-impacted by a severe weather system generated by Tropical Storm Fay delivering torrential rainfall throughout the southern region of the state.
The emergency declaration covers Baker, Charlton, Grady, Miller, Thomas, Decatur and Seminole counties and allows state resources to be used to assist these local governments.
"While we are very fortunate. . . |
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The aftermath of Tropical Storm Fay isn't quite over with yet, as officials are now warning of the imminent flooding of Spring Creek and the potential for flooding on the Flint River.
After deluging Bainbridge streets and roads all over Decatur County with water over the weekend, the tropical storm's impacts are still being felt this week.
The Spring Creek at Iron City in Seminole County was at 14.42 feet as of Tuesday morning.
As the creek rose above its flood stage of 14 feet, county firefighters were distributing . . .
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The Bainbridge Bearcats football team and award-winning Marching Bearcat Band took a major financial hit when Saturday night's scheduled football game between the Bearcats and Cairo Syrupmakers at Centennial Field was canceled due to Tropical Storm Fay's aftermath.
The game, which was rescheduled for Monday night, had to be canceled again due to severely rain-damaged roads between Cairo and Bainbridge.
Bearcats head football coach and Decatur County School System Athletic Director Ed Pilcher said, while he fully understands the reason the . . . |
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A Climax man and a woman from Havana, Fla., were killed in a single-car wreck near Attapulgus on Monday night, shortly after 7 p.m.
Milton Hamilton, 62, was driving north on Highway 262, about 2 miles north of the road's intersection with U.S. 27, when he drove his Isuzu pickup truck off the east shoulder of the road. Hamilton then overcorrected his steering, lost control and drove off the west shoulder of the road into the woods.
The truck, also occupied . . .
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Decatur County Commissioners used part of their Tuesday meeting to thank a long list of people who helped respond to the damaging wind and stormwater that Tropical Storm Fay brought during the past weekend.
Board of Commissioners Chairman Palmer Rich opened the meeting by reading a statement that thanked county and municipal workers, volunteer firefighters, state inmate cleanup crews and citizens for working together in what was termed a storm-wrought "disaster" affecting all of Decatur County.
County Road Department Superintendent Billy Leverette detailed how his employees worked throughout. . . |
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Local Sports Hello, Bowlers!
Can you believe the summer is nearly gone already? School has started back, summer leagues are ending and fall leagues are just around the corner.
With the economy in the shape it's in, and gas prices going ballistic, you might want to think about joining one of our leagues. It's close to home, economically affordable, it gets you off the couch, and it's fun!
Here's some stuff I bet you didn't . . . |
Let's begin with a tribute to a great man, by this I mean Mr. Jim Stone, on his book just out, "There's a Stone Store Near You" by Mr. Jim and Lou Merritt. They are on sale at the Book Nook and at Wingate's Lunker Lodge. I have read it and it is a masterpiece of good reading.
I'm tickled pink the way our athletes are acting in China. They have acted like true ladies and gentlemen, especially Kobie Bryant and the young Mexican American wrestler who wrapped the American Flag around . . . |
 | | | | | | | FAMILY RIVALS: Bainbridge High School Bearcats head football coach Ed Pilcher is flanked by his grandsons, Kaylon Harrell, left, and Van Harrell, who will be playing for the Early County High School Bobcats when the Bearcats play them Friday night in Blakely. | |
Friday night's football game between the Bainbridge High School Bearcats and Early County High School Bobcats at Blakely's Standifer Stadium will be a family affair for the Pilcher family of Bainbridge and the Harrell family of Blakely.
Kaylon Harrell, the junior starting center for the Bobcats, and his freshman tight end and linebacker brother, Van, are the sons of Chelle and Tracy Harrell of Blakely and the grandsons of Bearcats head coach Ed Pilcher and his wife, Lorraine.
Mrs. Harrell, while admitting it will be kind of an awkward situation, says she, her husband . . .
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The cancellation of Saturday night's scheduled season-opening football game between the Bainbridge High School Bearcats and Cairo High School Syrupmakers was a first for me.
The game, first postponed until Monday night, then canceled due to weather conditions that produced rain-soaked hazardous roads in Grady County and Decatur County, is the first canceled in my 38 years as sports editor of this newspaper.
In 2001, during the week of the horrible 911 tragedy, Georgia High School Association (GHSA), officials canceled all high school games that week. Ironically, it was Cairo that the Bearcats were supposed . . . |
The Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA's fifth annual Gray Memorial Bass Tournament on Lake Seminole will be this Saturday, Aug. 30.
The tournament is in memory and honor of Sammy Gray, a very successful businessman with Pepsi-Cola, avid fisherman and strong supporter of the YMCA.
It will benefit the YMCA's Partners With Youth fund, which provides financial assistance to deserving youth and families who wish to participate in YMCA programs.
Entry fee for each two person team is $135. There will also be a $10 per boat big fish . . . |
 | | | | | | | SPECIAL PRESENTATION: River Bend Ford Sales Manager Garet Franklin, second from left, presents the keys to an F-250 super duty Ford truck to Bainbridge High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter President Parks Kirbo, left, as BHS vocational supervisor Stan Killough, third from left, and Decatur County School Superintendent Ralph Jones observe. The chapter received the truck in recognition of its outstanding accomplishments. On the back of the truck, from left, are FFA members Chelsea Kornse, Trevor Green, Sara Beth Pelham, Will Bius, Richard Britt, Mark Fleetwood and Zac McClendon; standing in front, Kip Nussbaum, Sara Hodges, Nolan Lovering, Bailay Manley, and Lindsay Unfricht. | |
The award-winning Bainbridge High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter has received a F-250 super duty Ford truck from the National FFA Organization on behalf of the Ford Motor Division and River Bend Ford of Bainbridge for its outstanding accomplishments.
Since 1998, Ford and its dealers have awarded more than $4 million in scholarships to FFA members through the Ford Trucks\Built Ford Tough-FFA Scholarship Program. This is the third year they have . . .
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 | | | | | | | PRESTIGIOUS AWARD: Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Extreme team swimmer Lucas NeSmith is flanked by Ray and Dale Harrell after he received the prestigious Ted Harrell Sportsmanship Award named in honor and memory of their late son. | |
Lucas NeSmith won the prestigious Ted Harrell Sportsmanship Award, the highest honor a Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Extreme team swimmer can receive, at Friday night's summer swim team awards banquet at the First United Methodist Church's J.O. Smith Activities Building.
It was the 25th anniversary of the award, named in honor and memory of a former swimmer . . .
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This is August and right now the middle of Dog Days, but we have had a nice surprise in the way of the weather over the last couple of weeks. At any given moment it has been hot, but a couple of days we had temperatures one has had to dream about to realize here in the deep south.
You all know my brother that settled down in New York state after military service and has been in upstate New York for 20 years or so. He normally visits down here in August, but this year decided to come in May when it was really hot. If he had waited until August . . . |
 | | | | | | | TOP BOY SWIMMERS: Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Extreme summer swim team boys honorees surround coach Karla Norris, From the left, front, are Ben Mitchell, Thad Whitaker, Brad Mitchell, Sam Boutwell and Noah Bailey; back, Michael Dodson, Eric Conner, Dane Culverson, Tyner Cobb, coach Norris, Caleb Boutwell, Lucas NeSmith and Peyton Norris. | |
Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Extreme summer swim team members were honored for their outstanding efforts at their annual awards banquet Friday night at the First United Methodist Church's J.O. Smith Activities Building.
Before presenting awards and honors, coach Karla Norris told parents and friends that she thought everybody on the team swam well.
Each swimmer received a . . .
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Shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday night, a man and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their home on U.S. 27 South.
Decatur County Sheriff's Investigator Redell Walton said that two of the three men had handguns and took the wife, who was awake at the time, to the bedroom where her husband was asleep. The men tied up the man and wife and made off with several firearms, a set of keys and a cell phone.
The guns that were taken were a .32-caliber revolver, a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle.
"The men thoroughly ransacked. . . |
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Thursday, Aug. 28• Jakara-Micheaux Film Festival, Blakely, Colquitt and Camilla.
• Department of Drivers Services license examiner office open, Hwy 27 in Colquitt, 9 a.m.
• Preschool Storytime, Library, 10-10:30 a.m.
• Kiwanis, The Charter House Inn, noon.
• Birthdays: Jeriet Cook, Cliff Bailey, Julie Genovar, Annalee Marsh
Friday, Aug. 29• Jakara-Micheaux Film Festival, Blakely, Colquitt and Camilla.
• Department of Drivers Services license examiner office open, Hwy 27 in Colquitt, 9 a.m.
• AA Recovery Group, Hwy 27 behind Mr. Pip's, 1 p.m.
• Staying Alive Group of Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 232 W. Shotwell St., across from Methodist church, 8 p.m.
• Birthdays: Susan Flanders, Libby Willis, Brandon McCarty, Abby Trammell
Saturday, Aug. 30• YMCA Gray Memorial Bass Tournament, blast off, safe light.
• Birthdays: Jim Potter, Hammon McClellan, Ben White, Jimmy Cutchens
Sunday, Aug. 31• Bainbridge AA, AA Building 814 West St., closed meeting, 3 p.m.
• Birthdays: Ivan Hayes, Amanda Wooten, Jason Knox, Jeremy Middleton, Ezra Lusk
Monday, Sept. 1LABOR DAY• AA Recovery Group, Hwy 27 behind Mr. Pip's, 1 p.m.
• AA, AA Building, 814 West St., 8 p.m.; closed Big Book/12&12 study.
• Birthdays: Shae Harrell, Cierra Evans, Authum Evans, Kimoria Javon Brown, Terry B. Mitchell, Scotty Boyett, Russell Cone, Morgan Powell
Tuesday, Sept. 2• Preschool Storytime, Library, 10-10:30 a.m.
• Rotary Club, The Charter House Inn, noon.
• Southwest Georgia Daylily Society, Senior Center, 7 p.m.
• Spring Creek Volunteer Fire Department, firehouse, 8 p.m.
• Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 232 Shotwell St., across from the Methodist Church, 8 p.m.
• Birthdays: Andy Jeter, Kevin Lashley
• Anniversaries: Greg and Lynda Sellars
Wednesday, Sept. 3• OWLs meeting, Firehouse, 1 p.m.
• AA Recovery Group, Hwy 27 behind Mr. Pip's, 1 p.m.
• AA, AA Building, 814 West St., women's AA meeting closed, 6:30 p.m.; speaker, 8 p.m.
• Birthdays: Alexis Flanders
• Anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mitchell
Thursday, Sept. 4• Decatur County Schools Early release day.
• Department of Drivers Services license examiner office open, Hwy 27 in Colquitt, 9 a.m.
• Preschool Storytime, Library, 10-10:30 a.m.
• Kiwanis, The Charter House Inn, noon.
• Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1689, Big Boy's Bait and Tackle, 7 p.m.
• Pilot Club, Courtyard Cafe, 7 p.m.
• Birthdays: Larry Carroll Sr., Earl Nichols, Ethan White, Madeline Cady, Gean Hendrix, Sundra Erving, Ethan L. Bellflower |
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2008August• Aug. 30: YMCA Gray Memorial Bass Tournament, blast off, safe light.
September• Sept. 8: International Literacy Day Promotion
• Sept. 14: Humane Society skate party, Skate Towne, 1-4 p.m.
• Sept. 17-21: Bainbridge BikeFest, Commodore Park.
• Sept. 27: Flint River Rally with boat race, Flint River downstream of Earle May Boat Basin, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
• Sept. 27: "In the Pink" Community Awareness sponsored by the Decatur County Breast Cancer Support Center, First Baptist Church fellowship hall, noon.
October• Oct. 18: Harvest Festival, Downtown Donalsonville.
• Oct. 16-18: BFL Savannah River Regional, Boat Basin.
• Oct. 24-25: Georgia Literary Festival.
• Oct. 26: Formal dedication of the Charles H. Kirbo Regional Center, Bainbridge College, 3 p.m.
November• Nov. 1: Mule Day, Calvary, Ga.
• Nov. 8: Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Veteran's day Classic 10k, Bainbridge College, registration, 7:45 a.m.; race time 9 a.m.
• Nov. 29: Swine Time, Climax, Ga.,
December• Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Caroling in Willis Park with the Bainbridge British Brass Band, The Post-Searchlight and Post Printing. 6 p.m. |
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