Pavo News

Voters were up bright and early in Thomas County for a chance to cast their ballots on Tuesday.

Polling places across the peach state will be open for general municipal elections.

Although voters in seven Thomas County cities will cast ballots Tuesday, an elections official predicts a low voter turnout.

One person was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center Wednesday afternoon with injuries from a two-vehicle accident.

How can you spot a happy cow? Not the cartoon commercial kind, but a real one? To answer that, farmer Kyle Wehner studies a herd of about 200 cows - a colorful mix of crossbred Jersey, Brown Swiss, New Zealand Friesian and others - grazing along a rise at Jumping Gully Dairy in Pavo, Ga., about 15 miles northeast of Thomasville.

A gospel singer will give her testimony at a local church Sunday morning. Stephanie Leavins will speak and perform at Ione Freewill Baptist Church in Pavo at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept.

A small plane crash in Brooks County claims the lives of two Florida men. The Brooks County Sheriff's Office says the pilot and his passenger were traveling from Montgomery, Alabama to South Florida when their small plane crashed into a thick wooded area just after midnight last night.

A Florida-bound plane's last radar coordinate was over Brooks County Thursday night.

Two top executives of Seminole Gaming were killed in a small-plane crash in southern Georgia, tribe officials said today.

The wreckage was found at 12:30 Friday afternoon by the Georgia State Patrol Aviation Unit.

In a ceremony similar to many she had participated in during her life, the late Dinah Kahler was honored Saturday for her work in preserving Confederate heritage.

"This pushing of the gay issue on soap operas is worse than ridiculous. It must stop." "If people would get as excited about Jesus as they did Michael Jackson and go to church, this country would be a greater country than it is.

Jun. 23--THOMASVILLE -- Two Thomas County firefighters had to be cut from a tanker that overturned en route to a structure fire early Saturday afternoon.

A man accused of molesting a boy in early 2008 has been found not guilty. Julian Kyle Joiner, who was arrested and charged with the molestation and battery of a 12-year-old Pavo, Georgia boy, has been found not guilty on both charges.

The Thomasville YMCA will administer the Summer Food Service Program, beginning June 1 and ending July 24, with various sites set up throughout Thomas County.

Local municipalities are expected to receive some anticipated funds this week. On Tuesday, City of Thomasville Mayor David Lewis will be hosting a "Mayoral Luncheon" with representatives from the cities of Barwick, Boston, Coolidge, Meigs, Pavo and Ochlocknee.

The placing of flags on veterans graves begins today and continues through Monday morning.

The warm weather brought hundreds of people to Pavo Saturday for the 22nd annual Peacock Day, including many first-timers. Charlie Bishop and Tracy Johnson, of Lake Talquin, Fla., attended their first Peacock Day with Bishop's homemade soaps and Johnson's tie-dyed shirts.

A hit-and-run driver who struck a girl Wednesday evening during a car chase was captured after he abandoned a stolen vehicle and fled on foot, according to the Moultrie Police Department.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Thursday, April 30, 2009, include Bernardino Perez Barcenas, 41, of Moultrie; Junior Stewart, 54, of Pavo; Irene Lynn, 85, of Pavo; Mary E. Iverson, 66, of Moultrie; Wallace Anderson Jones, 96, of Sparks; and Mary Frances McCall Tatum, 60, of Doerun.