Rincon News

Herbert Bacon is U.S. Army Retired, a 23-year veteran, and fills his yard with flags on Thursday.

The Effingham County Board of Elections postponed the election of new officers during a called meeting Wednesday.

The city of Rincon will open its annual Fourth of July Parade and Festival at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner has ruled the man found Saturday in a pickup truck in the parking lot of Wal-Mart died of natural causes.

Parade lineup begins at 9 a.m. at Macomber Park. Parade starts at 10 a.m Parade route will follow Lexington Avenue to 4th Street and then to Highway 21 before returning to Lexington Avenue.

Rincon police have identified the body of a man found in a pickup truck parked in a Walmart parking lot on Saturday.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Springfield police are probing the death of a 2-year-old child who died at home Sunday afternoon.

The Rincon Lions Club recently donated $1,000 to the Phone Cards for Soldiers Campaign the Veterans Park of Effingham Board of Directors is conducting.

About 170 people a day are working to ready the new EFACEC transformer manufacturing plant, said Steve McGrey, project manager for contractor BE&K Building Group.

A Wednesday meeting at Savannah Technical College's Effingham campus about landing a job at EFACEC drew 450 people.

City Council members tabled a vote on a master plan of commercial development for property along Ga.

Excitement continued to spread across Tybee Island on Monday as spectators viewed the continuation of filming of the carnival scene for "The Last Song." Much of the south end of the beach was closed as the cast, crew members and hundreds of extras worked on the film starring Miley Cyrus.

Chapter president Joe Crews of Rincon, right, presents gifts to Bill Cathcart. Contextual linking provided by Topix Bill Cathcart of WTOC was the guest speaker recently at the monthly meeting of the Savannah Chapter of the Military Officers Association at Hunter Army Airfield Club.

The Effingham County Industrial Development Authority is short a member with the resignation last week of Delmons White.

A Rincon restaurant owner accused of employing and housing illegal aliens has pled guilty to those charges in a federal court.

Effingham County's EFACEC plant in Rincon played a role in Georgia recently winning the Silver Shovel award from Area Development magazine.

Voters in Effingham County municipalities will cast ballots for mayor in both Springfield and Rincon in November, as well as council seats in all three cities.

A Rincon man was arrested Thursday on a number of charges related to firing a gun.

Divine Creation, the youth choir at First United Methodist Church in Dacula, will present a free concert June 17 at the Rincon United Methodist Church Family Life Center, 810 Fort Howard Road.

" Over two dozen Effingham County and Rincon firefighters are still fighting a house fire this evening at 105 Jamestown Drive.