Leslie News

Early Tuesday morning, Leslie Police Officer Cecil R. Mathews II was on patrol in the city around West Allen Street, when he noticed two vehicles, a semi-truck and trailer and a blue 1999 Chevrolet Blazer S-10 traveling west around the Howell Street area.

Ellen Olive Griffin Baker formerly of Leesburg, died in Raleigh, NC on April 8, 2009.

The SAM Shortline excursion train chugs through South Georgia, offering day trips from Cordele to Archery, where former President Jimmy Carter's boyhood home and farm are located.

So what's a farmer like Cornelius Key to do? "Roadtrip," said Key. But farmers in these parts are a hard working bunch and even when they go on a roadtrip, there's a purpose.

A rainy day didn't damper the spirits of the 150-200 people who gathered at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church on Cotton Avenue Saturday afternoon to share in the celebration of a dream becoming reality.