Boston News

'Tis the season for tradition and the Main Street Farmers Market will host a new holiday institution in Shopping By Lantern Light on Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. Beneath twinkling white lights of the holiday season, shoppers will find dozens of farmers, food vendors and craftmakers providing an incredible variety of products.

Prepare to usher in the holiday cheer with two local Christmas parades next week.

A longtime, high-ranking lawman in the Thomas County Sheriff's Office has resigned.

Members of Sons of Solomon Lodge No. 151 and Electa Chapter No. 323 will host A Day of Caring, Sharing and Giving from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday at River Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 2884 James Road.

Noon today, Carey Hilliard's Restaurant, 11111 Abercorn St. Barbara Beardslee will be the speaker at the meeting.

Thomas County Fire/Rescue's proposed budget is $2.1 million for 2010, the agency's third year of operation.

In 1773 at the Boston docks, a group of patriots confiscated a shipment of tea from England and through it into the water beside of the docks.

Thomas County commissioners will begin two days of budget hearings Monday. At 9 a.m., commissioners will conduct a public hearing to allow citizens to make comments and ask questions about the 2010 general fund budget.

A pharmacist at a Boston pharmacy is charged with trafficking a prescription drug.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, include Quilladine Meadows Moorehead, 76, of Winona, Miss.; Gerald Kelly Beason, 61, of Boston; and Arthur Eugene Doninger, 85, of Pavo, formerly of Fort Myers, Fla.

Search warrants have been executed at several Thomas County locations in connection with the investigation of a Boston pharmacy.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: Melody Tully of Boston, Ga.; to Jasper Legget and Stephanie Leggett of Moultrie; property is located at map and parcel numbers M005 090 and 096 for $4,675. George A. Riggins of Omega; to Christopher Earl Hall of Omega; property is located at map ...

Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies.

Although voters in seven Thomas County cities will cast ballots Tuesday, an elections official predicts a low voter turnout.

"Boondock Saints: All Saints Day" - The original 1999 "Boondock Saints" was a ridiculously over-the-top action film about a pair of Irish-American twins who set out with guns, recklessness and boozy bravado to rid Boston of criminals and mafia.

By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., federal officials on Thursday announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across the country aimed at the newest and most violent cartel.

The Colquitt County Farm Bureau is having its "Harvest for All" food drive campaign.

In the early 1980's a military aircraft crashed in a bird sanctuary near the small town of Boston, Georgia.

As university admissions offices nationwide cut back on visits to high schools as a way of dealing with budgetary constraints, USC is taking the opposite route and increasing its number of visits in hopes of making a personal connection with more prospective students.

It's that time of year again, the Berlin Cotton Festival will be held this Saturday, from 9 a.m. until, at the Berlin City Park, behind city hall.