Plains News

Talk about a small-town feud that went downhill fast. The town of Silverton hit a wooden sledmaker with a stop-work order last month.

Today is the day that the candidates for City Council have been awaiting. Today is election day, and in Americus, Andersonville and Plains voters will be going to the polls to let their voices be heard.

My friend Walt White is running for reelection next week for the City Council in Fayetteville.

On March 29, this year, Leigh Anne Williams set out from Amicalola Falls in North Georgia with a friend and started her hike on the Appalachian Trail.

Flores said he was suspicious of that explanation and suggested that the officers might have been motivated by racism.

Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November.

Fill 'er up, with Blly Beer. There's been a certain climate change since Jimmy Carter came to Washington as president, leaving behind a younger brother Billy and a dispensary of hometown wisdom at his gas station in Plains, Ga.

Souther Field Airport in Americus a ' about 20 miles from Carter's hometown of Plains a ' is set to be renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport on Sunday, and not everyone's happy about the change.

A front porch not only adds a lot of character to a home architecturally - a front porch, especially in the early decades of this century, was a symbol of family togetherness.

"I never did hit the rabbit," President Carter earnestly told the sniggering press corps in Plains, Georgia.

Underneath the shade of a large pine tree, approximately 75 assembled guests watched as Wally Summers, vice chairman of the Americus-Sumter County Airport Authority, cut the black tarp and revealed the new sign, that reads "Jimmy Carter Regional Airport." The renaming of the airport from Souther Field Airport to its current moniker has not come ...

The following inspections were conducted recently by the Environmental Health Services Office, Sumter County Health Department.

Souther Field Airport, a former military training base, is set to be renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport in honor of the former president.

Two books, written and signed by former President Jimmy Carter, the Plains, Ga. , peanut farmer, will be featured at the Nov.

The dance teams and choir at St. Genevieve High School in Panorama City count plenty of boosters on their home turf and one very important supporter 3,000 miles away -- former President Jimmy Carter, who chose the students as one of two scheduled acts to perform today at his 85th birthday party.

Celebration was in the air inside the Rylander Theatre on Sunday afternoon as former President Jimmy Carter escorted his wife Rosalynn into the theater for a celebration of his 85th birthday.

Former President and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter waves to participants in the the Peanut Festival parade in Plains, Ga., Saturday, Sept.

Three years after making her first batch of almond butter in her kitchen, Jennifer Barney's business is stocking shelves in nearly 400 stores and moving into its own Fresno facility.

But something that's a big part of South Georgia's economy. "This weekend is the 13th annual Plains Peanut Festival," said Harry Duke, the Coordinator of the Plains Better Hometown Program.

October 1 is the 274th day of the year. In 331 B.C., Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persian in the Battle of Gaugamela.