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Advanced Tai Chi for Health class is 11:45 a.m. at The Active Life, 140 Ragland St.

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A group of students studying World War II at LaGrange College during the JanTerm semester with Joe Cafaro, Lisa Crutchfield and professor Cindi Bearden brought LaGrange Daily News with them to London, England.

Funeral services for Steve will be conducted on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 3 p.m. from the Prospect Church on Highway 34 West Franklin, Georgia with Brett Mathews & David Persinger officiating.

The Salvation Army, 806 Murphy Ave., provides emergency food assistance 9 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 3 p.m. Picture ID and Social Security card are needed.

The fourth meeting on sanitation options for Troup County continued the trend of most people in favor of keeping convenience centers, but with more residents who voiced that recycling should be addressed.

United Way of West Georgia is seeking sponsors for its third annual Merry Market scheduled for Oct.

Free, confidential HIV testing is available starting at 4 p.m. at Pathways at 122 Gordon Commercial Drive.

Mike Smith, an open atheist, has announced his candidacy for mayor in LaGrange, GA, where a city ordinance makes it a crime to laugh near a church.

A Helping Hand LLC and the LaGrange Housing Authority hosts its first free Senior Health Fair at the housing authority, 201 Chatham St.

Dr. Tom Gore, 58, a two-term member of LaGrange City Council from 2002 to 2010, announced his intent to seek election in November 2013 for a return to the council in District 1. Gore would be replacing Councilman Jim Thornton, who is running for mayor.

Jim Thornton announced Tuesday afternoon that he is running for mayor of LaGrange.

For the second night in a row, residents attending county meetings on trash options solidly were opposed to curbside pickup.

Story Hour featuring stories, fingerplays, songs and rhymes for preschoolers and their escorts is at 10:30 a.m. at Hawkes Library in West Point.

LaGrange Kiwanis Club hosts its second annual sporting clays tournament for scholarships event from 9 a.m. to noon at the Liberty Hill Sporting Club, 235 Liberty Hill/Glenn Road.

Broad Street Apartments, home of the LaGrange College Servant Scholars Program, have been recognized by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation for Excellence in Rehabilitation.

Circles of Troup County hosts Bridges Out of Poverty training will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 21 at Mike Daniel Recreation Center, 1220 Lafayette Parkway.

Free, confidential HIV testing is available starting at 4 p.m. at Pathways at 122 Gordon Commercial Drive.

Mr. Person was born on August 22, 1911 in Heard County Georgia to the late Mr. and Mrs.

LaGrange police say a Lanett, Ala., woman was airlifted to a trauma center after crashing her SUV into a gas pump at the Shell station at Broad and North Greenwood streets.