Sandersville News

Jonathan Jackson As part of an Open House Sunday, Allied Arts will welcome the community to The Big Click Photography Exhibition.

Now, as she nears 104, she's still at it -- teaching a Sunday school class at Harlem Baptist Church.

NEWNAN They wore bluejeans and camos and muddy boots, and a good number of them let's call them the leading indicators smoked fat, smelly cigars.

Hold the wine and keep the peace. That's the message midstate Catholics received from the pulpit Sunday as priests announced changes in the Mass to help prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus.

The Washington County sheriff's office says it arrested two men on crack charges Monday.

Enrollment in the current fall quarter at the 28 colleges of the Technical College System of Georgia has surged to a new record high with 110,254 students filling the classrooms and labs on the college campuses.

I have seen several letters published recently that rant and rave about the "czars," but they all seem to miss important points.

From 5-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Ridge Road Elementary School in Sandersville, GA, Georgians for Smart Energy , will provide an information session and press briefing on critical Plant Washington issues.

A proposed coal plant near Sandersville has sparked a heated discussion in Washington and surrounding counties.

About 130 miles from Savannah, there are plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in rural Sandersville.

Georgians for Smart Energy, a group of statewide pro-clean energy organizations, is holding a public hearing today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Kennesaw State University on the impact of a proposed coal-fired power plant in Middle Georgia.

Mary Jacobson, Opposed to plant: "The arsenic and the mercury that is coming out of there, will go into our rivers, will be polluting our fish, which will be polluting our citizens." A plea made to stop the building of Plant Washington in Sandersville, Georgia.

Is a proposed $2.1 billion, coal-fired electric generating station a threat to our environment? Plans to build the plant in Washington County are already in the works.

The Environmental Protection Division is holding a public meeting Tuesday in Sandersville to answer questions about permits for a new coal-fired power plant north of Sandersville.

Dwight Hickey, 55, of Fredericton, learned Thursday that federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has rejected a request from the U.S. to hand him over.

Ogeechee-Canoochee River Keeper Chandra Brown sits with her daughter Marley at Fort McAllister Marina located on the Ogeechee River.

The Bibb County sheriff's department says they've arrested a 16-year-old and charged him with Friday morning's deadly shooting outside a west Bibb County gas station.

Investigators say a Sandersville man is fatally shot in the head after he gives robbers an empty wallet.

It has all the elements of classic suspense fiction: an old and prominent Georgia family, one of the richest men in the state, impending financial disaster, and an alleged conspiracy to murder a relative for the insurance proceeds.

POWER4Georgians announced on August 25 that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division has issued draft permits for Plant Washington, a 850 megawatt coal-fired power plant being developed near Sandersville, in Washington County, Georgia.