Attapulgus News

This Decatur County community is right down the road from Attapulgus. Just a few miles farther away is Whigham, where they hold the annual rattlesnake roundup.

The completion of the new Bainbridge High School tops the Top 10 news stories of 2009.

Sheriffa s deputies arrested a Decatur County man after he allegedly fired off multiple rounds from a pistol at his estranged wife and her friend.

Decatur Countya TMs paid and volunteer firefighters, which have to cover nearly 600 square miles to protect life and property, could soon get some help from an unexpected placea 'the County Prison.

The Bainbridge Hardeea TMs was robbed by armed men early Saturday morning, according to Bainbridge Public Safety.

Defendants in two separate cases pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison time, according to the office of District Attorney Joe Mulholland.

The tenth armed robbery at a Decatur County business since June happened on Monday night, when two masked men robbed the Zip Trip convenience store located at 1006 E. River Road in Bainbridge.

Two masked men robbed the Quick Buys convenience store in Bainbridge on Thursday night, the latest in a string of armed robberies in Decatur County.

Officials have reopened the bridge on Faceville-Attapulgus Road in southern Decatur County after making emergency repairs, County Administrator Tom Patton said Friday.

Five Star Credit Union announced it has been granted a Community Charter in Georgia to serve the estimated 28,000 citizens of Decatur County.

Nurses at each Decatur County school were hired as employees of the school system this year.

As enrollment continues to climb at Bainbridge College, the need for student scholarships also increases, making generous giftsa 'such as the Mildred Williams McCarty Scholarship established in 2008a 'even more vital for students' educational opportunities.

Several local law enforcement agencies are looking for who might be responsible for committing any of several recent armed robberies at convenience stores.

Multiple auto break-ins were reported along the 200 and 300 blocks of Kelley Road on the morning of Sept.

Local law enforcement made several drug-related arrests within the past week. Phillip Byrd, 45, of 175 Kemp Road, Climax, was arrested by Sheriffa s deputies Tuesday afternoon, according to Capt.

Mary Frances Donalson slipped quietly away from the company of friends Thursday morning to seek comfort and consolation from her Creator after a spirited, but ultimately unsuccessful, argument with cancer.

Mary Frances Donalson, the long time news writer for The Post-Searchlight and a steadfast supporter of numerous causes in the community, died Thursday morning.

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A team of search dogs from a Florida Prison helped Decatur County Sheriffa TMs deputies track and capture two of three youth suspected of robbing an Attapulgus convenience store on Monday night.

On August 7th the students in Decatur County will be starting back for the 2009-2010 school year.