Plains News

Heavy rain struck middle Georgia, toppling trees and causing streams to overflow, and three counties closed their schools.

Kenia Wills of Preston has been chosen to represent South Georgia Technical College and SDA 15 at the Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education Leadership Institute in Atlanta February 10 to 12, 2010, announced SGTC Adult Education Executive Director Jan Hobgood.

If you survived the Carter years; high unemployment, high taxes, high interest rates, expanding government bureaucracy and ineffective leadership.

The following real estate transactions were recently recorded at the Sumter County Courthouse.

The little town of Plains is ringing in the holiday season in a huge way this season with three bigger-than-life events: a Christmas parade, Hands Around the Lake and a Community Sing.

The Norwegian Parliament can't build a "spite fence" between themselves and the United States.

The teacher explained her class would be designing post cards for President Jimmy Carter as part of a Georgia student art contest recognizing the famous Georgian's 85th birthday.

I met William Alton Carter III by the pop machines at the Torrance Holiday Inn in October 1982.

A taxpayers group is objecting to giving national park status to a gas station once owned by Billy Carter, the brother of former President Jimmy Carter.

A* Firefighters responded to three calls for medical assistance. A* Firefighters responded to a traffic accident at Wayne's World, 1043 Forsyth St.

Elton Loyless, 84, of 288 Pessell Creek Road, Plains died Monday at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus.

Talk about a small-town feud that went downhill fast. The town of Silverton hit a wooden sledmaker with a stop-work order last month.

Today is the day that the candidates for City Council have been awaiting. Today is election day, and in Americus, Andersonville and Plains voters will be going to the polls to let their voices be heard.

My friend Walt White is running for reelection next week for the City Council in Fayetteville.

On March 29, this year, Leigh Anne Williams set out from Amicalola Falls in North Georgia with a friend and started her hike on the Appalachian Trail.

Flores said he was suspicious of that explanation and suggested that the officers might have been motivated by racism.

Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November.

Fill 'er up, with Blly Beer. There's been a certain climate change since Jimmy Carter came to Washington as president, leaving behind a younger brother Billy and a dispensary of hometown wisdom at his gas station in Plains, Ga.

Souther Field Airport in Americus a ' about 20 miles from Carter's hometown of Plains a ' is set to be renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport on Sunday, and not everyone's happy about the change.

A front porch not only adds a lot of character to a home architecturally - a front porch, especially in the early decades of this century, was a symbol of family togetherness.