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Experimental indie-rock band Of Montreal will spend New Year's Eve 2009 in hometown Athens, Georgia to finish the U.S. leg of their extensive tour in support of their ninth studio album, Skeletal Lamping .

What could have been a major three-vehicle traffic crash on a bridge in rural Marion County turned out to only damage the vehicles involved.

For many years, people have traveled to Buena Vista for the annual Rural America Festival.

The last masterpiece of a dead Marion County visionary just got national recognition.

Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church will be observing its Annual Family and Friends Day on Sunday, Sept.

Eddie Owens Martin was born at the stroke of midnight July 4, 1908. His father was a Southwest Georgia dirt farmer, an uneducated sharecropper whose only apparent interest in his son was as a farm laborer who ...

Gas prices reached the upper limits within minutes all across the southern states Friday and Saturday as Hurricane Ike slammed into the gulf, causing a panic and a run for the pumps.

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please ...

Stepping Out: August 15, 2008

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please ...

More public meetings are planned to keep you updated on how the BRAC process will impact our area.

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please ...

Thirty miles beyond the city of Americus and through the long, winding roads of rural Georgia lay miles of heritage and breathtaking rolling hills, a tranquil and serene view visitors are sure to enjoy.

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please ...

A different sort of Independence Day takes place today at the wild and woolly art environment called Pasaquan, splashed across eight acres of Marion County outside of Columbus.

Gary and Debbie Pitts, of Peachtree City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Rebecca Denise Pitts to Adam Seth Roper, son of Willard and Mary Ann Roper of Ellaville.

After leaving his birthplace in south Georgia in the 1940s, Martin hitchhiked to Manhattan, taking odd jobs as a bartender, hustler, drag queen and fortune-teller, earning the Beat-inspired title "The Wizard of ...

Smoke Testing: The City of Americus is rehabilitating the sewer system and will conduct smoke testing of the collection system to check for leaks.

Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith said two black males entered the MTD store on Ga.

Onion Sale: Sumter County 4-H Clubs are selling Vidalia onions. All proceeds support Sumter County 4-H Club's Summer Programs including camp scholarships, 4-H'er insurance fees and other programming supplies. via Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Ge...