Vidalia News

Economic recovery is well entrenched in Georgia, but that doesn't mean it isn't being dragged down by external circumstances, according to Georgia State University's quarterly economic forecast released Wednesday.

By now, most shoppers are familiar with Vidalia onions . These onions, known for their sweetness, have been grown near Vidalia, Georgia, since the 1930s.

Over 120 peopled walked on stage as students and left as graduates in two Southeastern Technical College ceremonies held at the Swainsboro-Emanuel County and Toombs auditoriums on April 30 and May 7, respectively.

A Vidalia dentist faces drug charges after sheriff's deputies found what they believe was a meth lab on her property.

By now you should have received a plastic bag in your mailbox and United Way Executive Director Patricia Dixon hopes you'll put some non-perishable food items in it early Saturday and hang it on your mailbox for pickup by your letter carrier.

May 8-- Kimberly Warren, an Ambassador Girl Scout from Vidalia, received her Gold Award at the Girl Scout High Awards Ceremony in Savannah.

As Congress weighs immigration legislation expected to expand the guest worker program, another group is increasingly crying foul -- Americans, mostly black, who live near farms and say they cannot get field work because it is going to Mexicans.

Georgia's wildly flucA tuA atA ing temA perA aA tures in this year's first four months played havoc on the state's sigA naA ture onion crop.

The state Department of Education released the first-ever College and Career Ready Performance Index which grades schools on a 100 point scale, the same as students receive in their classes.

The sexy drawl, the Low Country Boil he cooked up for my birthday, his refusal to wear a skirt like the other scruffily-bearded hippie boys ... let's just say he stood out.

Toombs County sheriff's deputies said they were trying to find where a shooting had occurred Saturday on Joe Wolfe Road.

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black paid a visit to first grade students at Bleckley Primary School Monday afteroon.

Drought conditions continued to shrink across the state during April due to the seasonal rainfall and cool spring temperatures; the only area of Georgia left in drought is a small sliver along southeast coast.

Georgia's wildly fluctuating temperatures in this year's first four months played havoc on the state's signature onion crop.

During the depression, farmers in Vidalia, Ga., decided to grow onions, hoping for a better profit than they were getting for their corn and cotton crops.

Police went house to house on Macon Ave. and a block or so in each direction, asking neighbors for any information about a deadly shooting.

Hungry customers lined up in, and sometimes outside, Larry's Giant Subs in Vidalia to support Silas Edenfield and other children with cancer.

April 29-- A cash reward is being offered in the armed robbery and assault of a pizze delivery man in Vidalia.

April 29-- The National Technical Honor Society inducted six new members from Southeastern Technical College in a ceremony on the school's Vidalia campus.

April 29-- The chairman of the Banking Committee in the Georgia House of Representatives believes community banks need relief from bank regulators.