Attapulgus News

Among the Bainbridge College graduates on whom President Thomas A. Wilkerson conferred degrees and certificates at the 2009 commencement ceremony were these students, whose names were inadvertently omitted from the news sent by the college and for which the college apologizes.

Litter is mainly caused by people who are just careless, said Cpl. Scott Carroll of Albany, Ga.'s Department of Natural Resources.

In the 1900s, there were two Climax schools, one for the Caucasian children and one for the African-American children.

It's very unlikely that residents of the Attapulgus community may encounter serious flood problems, but local officials have voted to proceed with an application with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to participate in the National Flood Insurance program.

NEARLY PACKED UP AND READY TO GO are boxes, furniture and other items from the old high school to the new one.

Sheriffa s deputies arrested two men after an Attapulgus woman reported a burglary taking place at a neighbora s home on June 5. The woman told police she had been leaving her home when she saw two men, walking between her house and her neighbora s home on Thomas Avenue in Attapulgus, according to incident reports.

A baby girl was born into Decatur County early Friday morning, but it wasn't at the hospital, and it wasn't at home - it was in between.

After 45 years of sheltering young learners, Lillian E. Williams Elementary School in Attapulgus was filled with the noise of children for the last time on Friday.

Decatur County will soon welcome two new businesses that will lease space at the Industrial Air Park, located off U.S. 27 North.

Sheriff''s deputies rummaged through mud, plants, and even snakes today searching for the weapon used to kill 29-year-old James Christian two weeks ago.

Two suspects were in custody on Wednesday and have been charged with the April 8th murder of James Curtis Christian Jr.

There is very little left of the home on Simmons-McIntyre Road in Attapulgus. Decatur County firefighters responded to the call around 7:00AM, and it took them almost four hours to put it out.

LEARNING MORE ABOUT the federal economic stimulus package in Thomasville, Ga., as part of a series of workshops hosted by U.S. Rep.

On Wednesday, April 15, at around 4 p.m., Cathy Floyd of 156 Railroad Lane in Climax called E-911 when a fire broke out in her kitchen.

Decatur County was again hit by severe weather on Saturday as a string of storms moving through the area causing flooding over a number of roadways.

For the first time in approximately 24 years, the Attapulgus Dogwood Festival, originally scheduled for Saturday, March 28, has been canceled.

On Saturday night, Decatur County Sheriffa s deputies responded to a fight that resulted in the stabbing of an Attapulgus man at Dowdella s Pool Hall and Lounge.

Decatur County commissioners may soon consider changes to where people vote and could possibly add a seventh member to their board in the near future.

A jury convicted a Bainbridge man of three counts of aggravated assault in a Feb.

A LOG TRUCK OVERTURNED on U.S. Hwy. 84 East Monday afternoon. The driver of the truck suffered only minor injuries.