Eastman News

Members of the Travel Club, as seen in this file photo, make several trips a year.

Most of my friends and family know how much I love gar-dening, and I love talking about it almost as much as I love actually getting the dark, rich Georgia dirt packed under my fingernails.

Heart of Georgia Metal Crafters, which makes precision sheet metal and machined parts for aircraft manufacturers, plans to expand its Dodge County facility, investing $550,000, company officials said Tuesday.

Heart of Georgia Metal Crafters, which specializes in the fabrication of precision sheet metal and machined components and assemblies, recently announced that it plans to expand its headquarters at Heart of Georgia Regional Airport in Eastman, Ga.

State wildlife officers charged seven people with more than 100 poaching violations in Dodge and Laurens counties.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has made an arrest in an arson- homicide that claimed the life of an Eastman man.

Authorities in Dodge County arrested an Eastman man Wednesday in the killing of a man found dead in a house fire late last month.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into an Eastman homicide from last weekend.

The Dodge County sheriff's office is ruling a fire from this weekend as a homicide.

Protesters around the country are gearing up to rally against tax day with "tea parties." They include protests Wednesday in Macon, Warner Robins, Eastman and Eatonton.

A Cochran man has been charged with causing severe head injuries to his girlfriend's 3-year-old, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman.

The Macon tea party is scheduled for noon at Rosa Parks Square across from City Hall.

John "Bub" Collins was an avid golfer, carpenter and upholsterer. John Fulton "Bub" Collins, 72, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009, after a long battle with diabetes, under the care of Hospice Savannah.

Confusion regarding a merger that rolled an aviation school into Middle Georgia College has resulted in funding for the aviation campus being left out of next year's state budget, at least for now.

Isham Farnell Oa Quinn, 87, of Jesup, GA, died Sunday, March 15, 2009, in the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, after an extended illness.

The GBI is trying to determine how a Wrightsville man suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head in connection with a house fire early Monday morning.

The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for Bleckley County and Dodge County until 4:30 a.m. National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a Severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado ...

The Bryan County Industrial Authority on Thursday voted to offer F. J. a oeJosha Fenn the job of executive director.

The Eastman Police Department has a new leader, a 32-year department veteran who was sworn in as the city's first female chief Monday.

A Dodge County man is expected to be charged with malice murder today in the bludgeoning death of his wife.