Pelham News

BOY MEDAL WINNERS: Top five boys finishers at Saturday's Southwest Georgia Middle School Cross Country Championships stand with their medals.

Christian Gualtieri was waiting for fellow trick-or-treaters to catch up with him on the road near 14 Fineview Circle when a strong gust of wind toppled a birch tree onto him Saturday night, police said.

Police arrested an 18-year-old Norman Park man after he allegedly brought a rifle to Colquitt County High School Wednesday afternoon.

Two women were apprehended after they allegedly tried to steal several pieces of clothing and abandoned a shopping cart with two children inside it Tuesday afternoon.

Eric Corp, from left, Nathaniel, 11 and Leif Corp, 8, carpool with other students on their way to the Pelham Elementary School, where Nathaniel is a sixth-grader and Leif is a third-grader. The dog is Ziti.

Due to bad weather in Sunday's forecast, the Pelham Fire Department's 10th annual "Horribles Parade" has been postponed.

Pelham Police say 18-year-old Joshua Griffin jumped behind the wheel of a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee at Flash Foods and sped south on Highway 19.

Police were called out to the William Alexander Homes on Martin Luther King Boulevard around 1 a.m. Officers found 43-year-old Shelly Davis outside an apartment suffering from several stab wounds.

Three men rushed in at closing time, held a knife to the clerk's neck and grabbed money from the register.

The School Administrative Unit 28 Joint School Board will vote tonight on funding for budget items, including a second assistant superintendent.

Two men have been arrested and charged with robbing three deacons at gunpoint behind their Camilla church.

Shortly before 5:30 Friday afternoon Pastor J. Colburn Hobbes was held up at Lighthouse Community Church on Highway 19 at Mill Pond Road near Pelham.

Monday, September 14, 2009 Active pallbearers will be Bert Ellis, Gene Hickey, Sydney Humphries, Kermit Gilliard, Sr., John Tillis, Zane Owens, Ken Hickey and Randy Hickey.

State cuts to community mental health programs, which locally resulted in the loss of treatment centers in Colquitt and Grady counties, fly in the face of a recommendation last year by a governor's mental health panel.

Freshly installed portable classrooms next to Pelham Elementary School, and beside two of the three public elementary schools in Hudson are clear evidence of a major historical change occurring in both of these neighboring southern New Hampshire districts.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Services for Carroll Todd Givens, 40, Bainbridge, are 11:00 AM Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at Clark Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Elder Max Childs, 73, of Grady County, GA, will be held on Sunday, August 16, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at Mizpah Primitive Baptist Church, Grady County, Pelham, GA.

Mental health services may be harder to access when the Georgia Pines facility in Moultrie closes at the end of the month due to state budget cuts.

A 12,000-square-feet family life center is now under construction at Pelham First Baptist Church after four years of planning and many fundraising events.

President Barack Obama meets with more than 150 children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes from across the U.S., who were in Washington, D.C., on June 23 to advocate for research funding at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Children's Congress.