Sandersville News

Erwin, Hazel Christine Madden, 83, of Winterville; 2:30 p.m. graveside at Athens Memory Gardens; Lord & Stephens, EAST, Athens, has charge of arrangements.

The Milledgeville Chapter Junior Board of the Watson-Brown Foundation also awarded Georgia's Old Capital Museum Society with a $5,000 grant to help cover a portion of an estimated $15,000 cost to repair and restore plaster in the wall and ceiling area of the upstairs portion of the Brown-Stetson-Sanford House.

The Sandersville community is pulling together to help a family whoa s lost everything.

The Pentecostal Outreach Church will be having a special gospel concert featuring The Shepherds on Sunday morning, June 14 at 10:30 a.m. Sunday School will begin at 9:45 a.m. The Shepherds are from Sandersville, GA.

A group of six electric cooperatives still plans to build the state's first coal-fired power plant in 20 years, though they have lost four partners and face looming regulatory changes.

Four of 10 electric membership cooperatives planning a $2 billion coal-fired power plant in Washington County have pulled out of the project, according to environmental groups that have campaigned against the 850-megawatt generating station.

Two more utilities have backed out of a coalition that wants to build a proposed coal-fired power plant in Washington County, Ga.

When the special-care home Dwight Hickey was operating in Sandersville, Ga., ran into financial woes in 2005, the Canadian sold his polar bearskin rug, which he had received in the mail from Yellowknife that June, for $4,000. He soon relocated to New Brunswick, and moved on - or so he thought.

Citing uncertainty over future federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, four Georgia electric membership corporations have pulled out of a consortium planning to build a coal-burning power plant.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:06 p.m. David Robinson survived a sudden-death playoff on Tuesday to claim a spot in June's U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in Farmington, N.Y. The Sandersville, Ga., pro finished in a seven-way tie for fifth place in a local qualifier at The River Club in Suwanee, Ga.

The huge billboard signs going into Sandersville would make one think the entire community supports proposed a new coal-power plant there.

An outreach program that started in Colquitt County has received regional recognition and is on a short list of competitors for a national award.

Eric Baggett of Dublin grew up watching and attending races at Dublin 441 Speedway.

The deadline for extraditing a Fredericton man to the United States to face charges related to the sale of a polar bear rug has passed and now all he can do is wait.

Severe weather swept over three Central Georgia counties Tuesday night, but local officials say they escaped serious damage.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:29 a.m. An environmental group opposed to a planned coal-fired power plant in Washington County, Ga., will offer mercury hair testing in Sandersville, Ga., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

That's the slogan of the Sandersville Old City Cemetery Committee this year. "I think it's catchy," said Susan Lewis, one of the committee members.

TENNILLE, Ga. - Phillip N. Veal, age 49, of New Buckeye Road, Tennille, died Friday, May 1, 2009.

Before 2008, only five people were sentenced to Georgias Board of Corrections for dog fighting.

In front of another standing room only crowd of race fans, Dublin driver Frank Williams drove his familiar No.