Tift County News

Tifton and Tift County residents can all be thankful that none of our local governments found it necessary to raise taxes this year.

An Ashburn man who is a registered sex offender and once lived in Tifton was convicted in Florida Thursday of beating, raping and stabbing to death a Clearwater mother of three.

The Tift County appraisal staff will be reviewing property in southeast Tift County south of Ferry Lake Road and east of I-75 to Cook/Berrien counties this week.

The Tift County appraisal staff will be reviewing property in southeast Tift County south of Ferry Lake Road and east of I-75 to Cook/Berrien counties this week.

The Georgia Agrirama celebrated the opening of a food exhibit from the Smithsonian Saturday by cutting a vine and honoring two local cooks.

Too many births and a tough economy are filling the pens at the Tifton-Tift County Animal Shelter.

CFM based out of Watertown, New York will now be located where COI food distributions used to be.

Shots were fired in a local convenience store during an armed robbery early Sunday, but no one was injured.

Autopsy results from the Atlanta Crime Lab show his death was caused by natural causes.

The Exchange Club of Tifton recently presented its 56th annual Book of Golden Deeds award to Amy Henderson, a teacher at Tiftarea Academy.

A teenager riding a four-wheeler through a patch of pine woods Tuesday afternoon off Tifton-Eldorado and Babe Hall roads discovered the body of an as yet unidentified person.

The Tift Theatre for Performing Arts will present "An Evening of One Acts" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Texas Jack's Steakhouse has stepped forward to help the struggling Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Georgia, Inc.

Homeowners, property owners, rental owners and other community members and officials worked together Saturday morning to clean up Hill Avenue in south Tifton.

The Tift County Board of Commissioners adopted a tentative 2009-2010 budget, that won't require a property tax increase Monday night during its regular session.

A 26-year-old woman who was shot by a patron in an Omega convenience store is in the Tift County Jail, charged with two recent Omega armed robberies.

Bell Plantation, the Tift County YMCA, and Kingdom Fitness are sponsoring the 90 day challenge.

We are seeing Georgia citizens losing their jobs or being asked to take furloughs because our elected officials cannot balance our state budget.

Two traditional July 4 fireworks displays in Tift County have been canceled because of the economy, but Reed Bingham State Park's event will go on.

The Tift County Board of Commissioners will present its proposed 2009-2010 operating budget at 6:30 p.m. Monday when they meet in regular session and is expected to set a tentative tax millage rate then.