Turner County News

A wreck here last week sent two Turner County women to the hospital. Crisp County EMS and troopers with the Georgia State Patrol Post 30 responded to the accident at the intersection of Hwy 41 and 5th Street.

Ten of the top honor graduates at area high schools, including one valedictorian and two salutatorians, have been selected as ABAC Foundation Scholars and will receive full tuition scholarships when they enroll at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College this fall.

Moultrie Technical College will offer a chance to defray the $95 test fee for General Educational Development test takers in Tift and Turner counties.

A new Siren has been installed on Martin Luther King Drive in Ashburn. The siren was purchased thanks to a 33,000 dollar matching grant from FEMA.

Georgia's nationally acclaimed 4-H performing arts group, Clovers & Co. will entertain at Turner County Civic Center on Saturday May 9, at 7 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Turner County Arts Council, The Grass Roots Arts Program and South Georgia Banking Company.

The Cedartown City Commission has named Charles Akridge, of Moultrie, as the new City Manager.

The county has more than 300 miles of dirt roads, and every road has been damaged by recent rain.

Health officials in Tift and Turner counties have issued a boil-water alert for customers who receive drinking water from private wells.

Water flowed down the center of Lamont Street near Washington Avenue, closing it for a couple of hours.

When the economy nosedives, plunging right along with it into, say, a giant tub of grits, kind of makes sense.

"Lots of people are looking for jobs. Centrapak closed down in February; so that put a lot of people out of work," said Edena Maddie.

"Thinking about organizing a protest at the next City of Tifton Council meeting to protest the lack of the council getting the street lights synchronized on Eighth.

Whitefield Academy opened the fourth quarter on an 8-0 run to pull away from Wilcox County for an 87-63 win on Wednesday in the GHSA Class A boys semifinals at the Macon Coliseum.

Using a 20-4 run over the final five minutes of the game, Turner County advanced to the GHSA Class A championship game with a 71-50 win over Athens Christian.

Five talented vocalists named Five By Design will give a steamy portrayal of the rise and fall of the big band era from 1935-1955 in their production of Club Swing.

Myrle Zorn doesn't know most of the couples whose wedding announcements are written up in The Albany Herald each Sunday, but she reads about them anyway.

A vehicle being chased by a trooper Sunday night hit a telephone pole. All four people in the vehicle escaped injury and the driver and two of his passengers are wanted for questioning.

Officials with Alltel Wireless said local customers shouldn't see any change in service or billing relating to the company's recent sale of several regions, including Tifton, to Verizon Wireless.

Ben Baker won't say the old Turner County jail is haunted. "I've never seen any ghosts here.

The salmonella outbreak has local farmers and the leaders with the Georgia Peanut Commission worried about the future of the peanut business.