Newton News

Easter is a time for kids to eat candy and hunt for colorful eggs. But children who are sick and in the hospital don't get to enjoy those Easter festivities.

The Newton County Board of Education held an apparent illegal closed meeting Tuesday to discuss the vice chair writing columns for the Citizen.

Samuel McGinnis was named Jasper County's STAR student at the STAR banquet held last Thursday at the Monticello Kiwanis Club meeting at the First United Methodist Church.

MARKING BLACK HISTORY MONTH at Bainbridge College are, from the left, front row, Saneka Parks of Donalsonville, Ga., Shirley Florence of Bainbridge, Israel Perkins of Colquitt, Ga., and Bitisha Shina of Bainbridge; back row, Alfred Florence, Michael Howard, Patricia Williams, Sylvester Byrd, all of Bainbridge; Cora Baker of Newton, Ga.; Kathryn ... (more)