Chula News

A Turner County jailer was shaken but not seriously injured Thursday morning when an inmate he was transporting to a Tifton doctor's appointment allegedly got out of his handcuffs and attempted to escape the patrol car.

The original bid requests mailed in December for design of the Westside Fire Station have been scrapped.

Dial-A-Prayer is available 24 hours a day at 382-2484. Preschool Enrollment TIFTON - Peace Lutheran Preschool is enrolling students for the 2009-2010 school year.

Jorge Luis Duque Banda, 23, 109 Apricot St., was charged Monday with driving without a license and a safety restraint violation.

One county commissioner said she was recently ready to quit her efforts to clean up her community but has now been inspired to continue by several letters and telephone calls supporting her.

Rodney Bruce Bennett, 54, 1204 Zion Hope Road, Chula, was charged Thursday with theft by taking and criminal damage to property.

Vinyetta Caprice Beckhom, 22, 1220 Sussex Drive F46, was charged Monday with battery and criminal damage to property.

The Exchange Club of Tifton recently presented its 56th annual Book of Golden Deeds award to Amy Henderson, a teacher at Tiftarea Academy.