Unadilla News

Three Richmond County narcotics officers were placed on desk duty Wednesday after a shooting the night before that killed a man wanted on several drug charges.

Dooly County employees will not have to worry about furlough days, at least not just yet.

Twelve South Georgia Technical College practical nursing graduates participated in a special pinning ceremony held recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technical Center on the Americus Campus.

Advanced voting for the Nov. 3 city elections in the tri-county area begins next Monday, Oct.

Thank you, Cordele Dispatch, for allowing me this opportunity to praise the Dooly County emergency workers, Unadilla Fire and Rescue, and Dooly County EMS.

Dooly County citizens had the opportunity Thursday morning to hear from their federal, state, and local officials on pertinent issues affecting them during the annual Eggs and Issues breakfast held here.

Mike Keown has lofty aspirations and a fund-raising target to match it. At the beginning of September, Keown set a one-month goal of collecting $100,000 for his campaign for Georgia's Second Congressional District seat.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for Dooly County that extends through Saturday.

Nearly five inches of rainfall fell in the area early Tuesday morning causing flash flooding which prompted evacuations and washed out part of a highway.

The head of Unadilla's Public Works Department died while trying to assist others after Monday night's storms.

Becky Crissman/Cordele Dispatch- Clarence and Ethel Harris of Cosby Street stand on the porch of their flooded home Tuesday.

Storms that have created torrential rains across Georgia have claimed another life.

Qualifying for elections in most of the cities throughout the three-county area ended Friday at 4:30 p.m. City elections will be held Tuesday, Nov.

Dooly School Superintendent Dr. Grady Miles wants to open the lines of communication between the school system and city governments in the county.

A 20-year-old Dooly County man has been arrested on a stalking charge as the result of several reported harassment incidents involving local women.

Crisp and Dooly County residents were invited to share in the successes of the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone at its annual membership meeting Monday.

District Attorney Denise Fachini says she plans to retry Unadilla City Councilman Dexter Whittaker in a future superior court session in Dooly County.

A Hyundai hit a DOT buffer truck on the loop Monday, July 27. A woman and an infant injured in a two-vehicle wreck on the bypass Monday afternoon have were released from the hospital later that night, officials stated.

A Hyundai hit a DOT buffer truck on the loop Monday, July 27. A woman and an infant injured in a two-vehicle wreck on the bypass Monday afternoon have were released from the hospital later that night, officials stated.

Some 72 years ago, Pierce Sullivan was born five miles east of this Dooly County town, on a wee farm served by a rutted wagon path that today is a wide, coral-colored graded sand and clay road officially listed as Sullivan Road.