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RECENT OBITURARIES
• Margaret Murphy Betts
Margaret “Peggy” Murphy Jones Betts, age 95, passed away Tuesday,
November 17, 2009.
She is survived by her daughters, Margaret Huguley of Gainesville and Betty
Haley of Milledgeville; her son, Cullen B. Jones III of Ellenwood; her sisters,
Ruth Crawford of Roswell, Katherine Clay of Tyrone, Louise Smith of
Gainesville, and Patricia Harmon of Sun City Center, FL; and her brothers,
Claude Murphy and Frank Murphy both of Dunwoody, and Charles Murphy of
Rome.
Williams Funeral Home
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Grassroot efforts to save Milledgeville Waldenbooks apparently in vain
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Wounded soldier recalls deadly day at Fort Hood
Twelve feet.
That’s the distance that separated a local soldier from Nidal Malik Hasan, the
man who gunned down 13 people and wounded 30 more at Fort Hood Army
Base in Texas earlier this month.
Private First Class James Armstrong – a 2001 Baldwin High graduate – was
sitting in an Army waiting room when Hasan opened fire around 2:30 p.m. on
Nov. 4. Armstrong, shot twice during the rampage, can still close his eyes
and see the incident clear–as–day.
“Everything that happened that day
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Huge game at Braves Field this Friday night
One down. Four more to go?
Baldwin High blasted Northside-Columbus on Friday night, winning 40-7 in
round one of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs.
The slope, however, becomes much more slippery this Friday, as the
defending state champion Cairo Syrupmakers come to town. The
Syrupmakers were a 42-7 winner in their first-round matchup against
Woodland High. A large contingent of fans is expected to make the trip from
Cairo, which is located in extreme south Georgia and just north of
Tallahassee, Fl.
The Syrupmakers are extremely
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Remembering the "old" Fifth Street
Fifth Street isn’t exactly the nicest neighborhood in Baldwin County.
Many of the homes on Fifth Street are in disrepair, while many of its residents
live near the poverty line. Fifth Street took a tragic nosedive in the mid
1980s, a victim of the crack-cocaine epidemic that stole the innocence of
many American neighborhoods. In a sense, Fifth Street has never landed from
that nosedive and has never recovered.
Prior to the mid ’80s, however, Fifth Street was a fairly charming, family-
oriented neighborhood. The
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OPINION: Deep Roots Festival could use more variety, become more interactive
Saturday’s Deep Roots Festival was another success.
Things were well-organized and orderly. The weather cooperated. Downtown
merchants saw a spike in sales. Everyone behaved themselves, for the most
part.
Organizing the Deep Roots Festival is a fairly large ordeal and a year-round
process. The festival’s organizers should be commended and applauded.
Deep Roots shows off Milledgeville at its very best – charming, diverse and
full of hospitality. It’s difficult to find people who will criticize the Deep
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New GMC prep facility should sparkle
By this time next year, students and faculty at Georgia Military College prep
should have a brand new home.
Construction is continuing at a brisk pace around GMC’s new prep school
facility, which checks in at three stories and 75,000-plus square feet. School
officials hope to begin moving into the building by May, which would provide
ample time before the first day of school in August.
GMC officials offered a walking tour of the new facility to local media outlets
on Tuesday morning. Gen. Peter Boylan, seated in his familiar
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Ol' Mercer receives nice package from Afghanistan
More than three dozen mementos hang from the walls of Mercer’s Barber
Shop near the courthouse.
Some are framed, while others hang by an old piece of Scotch tape. Included
is an autographed photo of George W. Bush, several Charlton Hestons and a
poster claiming that GUN CONTROL MEANS USING TWO HANDS. One item,
however, stands above the others in the heart and mind of Bobby Mercer.
The story begins one day earlier this month when Mercer walked inside his
house. On the kitchen table sat a UPS package. Mercer opened the
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First female football coach leads Gators to perfect season
How often do you hear football coaches refer to their players as "my babies?"
"Ooh! They’re double-teaming my baby!"
"My baby blew up that bootleg play!"
"My babies are playing some good football tonight!"
Well, you’d probably have to ask members of the Gunby Enterprises Gators, a
team in the 7-8-year-old league at Walter B. Williams Jr. Park. The Gators are
coached by Evony Rhodes, who is the first female head football coach in the
park’s history. This season, Rhodes has outcoached all of the men, leading
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Rheem closing was several years in the making
18 dollars an hour.
That’s supposedly the difference between labor costs in Mexico and labor
costs in Milledgeville, Georgia.
It’s a dollar amount that greatly contributed to Rheem’s demise in Baldwin
County, according to
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