Crisp County News

Griffin Housing Authority Executive Director Robert Dull has worked on transforming public housing in other cities in the past and is seeking to apply his experience to the city of Griffin.

Cordele voters re-elected two incumbents to the city council. According to the Crisp County board of elections,Jeanie Bartee was re-elected to City Council Ward 3 seat witth 227 votes to Larry Felton's 136.

For many families, Thanksgiving Day marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas-tree-hunting season.

City voters here have a final opportunity to cast ballots in the city commission runoff election this Tuesday, Dec.

The Albany City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow Crisp County public safety officials to link up to the city's 800 MHz communications system in a move that will defray maintenance costs for the city and promote regional communication.

An employee of the Crisp County Sheriff's Office jail staff has told Investigator Karlie Stowe she continues to be stalked by a subject already convicted and jailed for that offense.

Two area teams are going into state play this weekend and Dispatch Sportsman Harvey Simpson will have the story.

A 33-year-old Belk's employee has been charged with felony theft by shopifting after allegedly selling $338.99 worth of merchandise for less than a dollar to a couple of friends for her own benefit.

Jamie Roberts of Oglethorpe, a marketing management student at South Georgia Technical College , has been selected as the first recipient of the Leonard and Marie Waitsman Marketing Scholarship, which was established and endowed recently by the Waitsman family in honor of Marie Waitsman and in memory of the late Leonard Waitsman.

Doing their best to stop a rash of gunfire that has taken place of late primarily on the west side of town, Cordele Police Department officers have arrested a man believed responsible for at least one of the incidents.

Investigation of burglaries is nothing new for Crisp County Sheriff's Department deputies.

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Race begins at the Crisp County Middle School Auditorium- 1116 24th Ave. E. Cordele , GA 31015 Course: An ideal out and back course measured accurately.

Crisp County Power General Manager Steve Rentfrow has notified the Dispatch that the Flint River is expected to peak at least a foot above flood stage in Montezuma Saturday.

South Georgia Technical College's industrial electrical technology recently held an advisory meeting on SGTC's Cordele campus.

Crisp County Sheriff's Department officers recently took part in a high speed two-county chase initiated on Nov.

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery earlier this week at CVS Pharmacy here.

Just before 1:00 P.M., Georgia State Patrol was called to the interstate at mile marker 98.

Residents of the Ironwood Golf Course area of Crisp County believe a proposed development for a class A motor coach resort near their homes has little chance for success.

Law enforcement personnel throughout the county participated in a Red Ribbon Road Block on Monday, Oct.