Lyons News

Excellent growing weather in May has helped improve the outlook for Vidalia onions, which have been hit hard by seed stem problems.

According to Montgomery County Sheriff Ladson O'Connor, "Nobody was really at fault, it must have got run over or something and it ruptured the line.

Denton Tapley has been a member of the 4-H Modified Trap gun team for two years, but he has been "breaking" clays for many years.

By now you should have received a plastic bag in your mailbox and United Way Executive Director Patricia Dixon hopes you'll put some non-perishable food items in it early Saturday and hang it on your mailbox for pickup by your letter carrier.

There's a song on the new Craig Campbell album "Never Regret" that brings back the memories for the singer.

The state Department of Education released the first-ever College and Career Ready Performance Index which grades schools on a 100 point scale, the same as students receive in their classes.

May 3-- Robert Toombs Christian Academy in Lyons has been accredited in Georgia since it's founding, however, Wednesday it earned national accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Immigrant workers at Stanley Farms in near Lyons, Ga., April 30, 2013. Americans, mostly black, who live near large-scale farms say they are illegally discouraged from applying for work and treated badly by employers who prefer foreigners' malleability.

Country singer-songwriter Craig Campbell enjoys the sense of place in Eagleville, population 610.

Metter Police Chief Dennis Nelson said Metter police officers, along with officers from the Candler County Sheriff's Office, Tri-Circuit Drug Task Force, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the US Postal Inspectors Office, executed a search warrant Wednesday at a Lillian Street address.

Veterinarian Terry Norton, director of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, releases Silas the loggerhead back into the ocean Saturday after the Tybee Island Turtle Trot.