Millen News

A frost advisory is in effect from 3 am tonight to 8 am tomorrow morning for the following areas in the Coastal Empire and Low Country Counties include Jenkins-Screven-Candler-Bulloch-Allendale-Hampton-inland Colleton- Including the cities of Millen Sylvania Metter Statesboro Allendale Hampton Walterboro.

Macon Police have located a missing Bibb County School employee who disappeared at the end of September.

It has taken eight years for The Hushpuppies band to release its second independent CD, but lead vocalist Todd Cowart said fans will find the wait to be more than worthwhile.

The possible location of a privately run state prison in Jenkins County has breathed hope into the small town of Millen.

Authorities in Burke County uncovered a gruesome dogfighting ring. One person was arrested and investigators are still looking for more suspects.

Gov. Sonny Perdue announced that the second cycle of Georgia Heritage Grants funded with proceeds from sales of the historic preservation license plate has been awarded to four projects, totaling $46,285. Last year's $20,000 award to the Tybee Theater in Chatham County was the first project supported with funds from license plate sales.

A: Jenkins County in southeast Georgia posted the highest unemployment rate in July, at 21.7 percent, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.

Charles E. Hughes in 1990; he led Local 372 for 30 years. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Charisse Rose said.

Doris Jones never met a greeting card she didn't like. She mailed cards to friends and family on the regular holidays, of course, but often put one in the mail for those moments not marked on a calendar.

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I know that you all have already heard about Georgia's June unemployment numbers.

My friend recently described an incident he had just experienced in traffic that you and I have seen a hundred times.

Temp: 84.0 F Heat Index: 83 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA July 20, 2009 Officers at the Millen Police Department are looking for as many as five suspects in a burglary at the New and Used Bargain on Harvey Avenue in Millen.

Jennifer Lynn Cox of Valdosta, GA and Larry Linwood "Woody" Poston Jr. of Lake City were married at 11 a.m. March 28 at The Mansion of Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA.

Christina Davidson, on the road writing for The Atlantic , has a somber piece on the effects of the recession on the people of Millen, Ga., a little town between Augusta and Savannah.

Millen, Georgia feels like a community on life support. Shuttered storefronts line Cotton Avenue.

Why would the only pool in 6 counties, and one of the only aquariums in the peach state still be open after it was scheduled to close June 1st? The Bo Ginn Aquarium, this pool and these ponds were scheduled to be closed by the state because of budget cuts.

A heat advisory is now in effect from 2 pm this afternoon to 8 pm edt this evening.

This is what fashion is. -- Simon Jablon, designer Do you have new sunglasses this summer? Well, if you want to look stylish, they should be round.

Sunday, June 14, 2009 7:16 p.m. A Millen, Ga., man told police he was the victim of an armed robbery in the parking lot of Augusta Super Inn at 1602 Gordon Highway on Saturday.