Crisp County News

Four Bibb County teenagers are accused of multiple commercial burglaries in Warner Robins during a two-week crime spree in June, police said.

A new Georgia law allows Crisp County parents with children in kindergarten through fifth grade to choose which school those children will attend.

Part of the Perimeter Park has been built. A few businesses have already moved into the Perimeter Plaza shopping center.

Sixty years after its inception, Crisp County's Watermelon Days Festival is still a big hit with Middle Georgians.

A 21-year-old Crisp County Law Enforcement Center inmate has been charged with riot in a penal institution and battery as the result of an alleged Monday morning assault of another prisoner.

After a slightly sour start, South Georgia watermelon farmers hope the season will end up sweet.

Cordele City Commissioners joined forces with other governing entities Tuesday night to support a Small Business Development Center in Crisp County.

In this part of the world, watermelons are king, especially this time of year. Known as the Watermelon Capital of the World, Cordele is the prime place to get your hands on a red-ripe watermelon, a sweet staple of Southern summers.

Alert Crisp County Sheriff's Department deputies apprehended last week two persons wanted on warrants issued in Habersham and Tift counties.

While the stimulus package and the green movement plow forward , some of the green operations launched in the past few years are now facing difficult times including discontinued operations and bankruptcy.

Until recently, retirement was an ugly word in Judy Bean's mind. "I guess the notion was instilled in me by my parents.

Solve the mystery of the missing Wally Melon, and win $200. Clues to the CODE that will help locate Wally have been running in the Cordele Dispatch and on the paper's website at www.cordeledispatch.com. Clues 5 and 6 are printed elsewhere in this edition.

Both the Crisp County Commissioners and Board of Education have given their support to an effort to create a Small Business Development Center in the county.

Bond has been set for a woman accused of helping swindle more than $2 million from investors in an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Watermelon Days Festival Committee members are anxious to bring Wally Melon home in time for the 60th anniversary celebration which begins this weekend.

Rev. Renee DuBose of Hope Metropolitan Community Church in Athens was one of the recipients of this year's PFLAG scholarships.

Cordele Police Department along with Crisp County EMS responded to a motorcycle accident at the intersection of 24th Avenue and Highway 90.

Hugh Little has been an asset to South Georgia Technical College's commercial truck driving program for almost 22 years, but is now retiring from full-time teaching to focus on family and travel.

Members of the Cordele Community League presented a $300 scholarship recently to South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center's Business Administrative Technology student Susan Burns of Cordele.

A 17-year-old Cordele youth has been arrested on warrants charging battery and cruelty to children , four juveniles have been charged with either shoplifting or criminal trespass and three vandalism complaints have been filed.