Dixie News

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, include Bernice Louise Schulze Lindley, 81, of Moultrie; Pauline Mittie Hewett Jones, 81, of Moultrie; David Lee Smythe, 62, of Dixie, Ga.; Lenora Plymel Davis, 97, of Tallahassee and formerly of Moultrie; and Gregory Arnold Allen, 37, of Tifton, and formerly of Moultrie.

Several roads in Whitfield and Murray counties are closed or nearly impassable, 911 operators said at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

A 30-year-old Brooks County man who admitted e-mailing inappropriate material to children is in custody in Brooks County.

The GBI says in May, 30-year-old Donald Powell of 1400 Coffee Road in Dixie took several photos of a young child and posted them on the internet.

Two South Georgia men in different cases are now behind bars charged with child molestation.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: Johnny W. Franklin and Beatrice Patricia Franklin of Omega; to Richard J. Phillips Jr.

A Dixie man who has served two prison terms for drug convictions and is on probation in a methamphetamine conviction is back in jail in another meth case.

East Side Baptist Church will have its revival Sunday, April 19, through Wednesday, April 22, with the Rev.