Rentz News

On Tuesday, October 27 the Appling County Board of Commissioners held a Public Hearing at 5:00 p.m. to discuss and to approve the abandonment, no longer to service, of at least part of seven county maintained roads.

A cashier at the Goodwill Store says she saw, what she described as an elderly woman, pick up a Coach purse about 12:35 PM and leave without paying for it.

TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union A painter puts a coat of paint on the steel support beams for a walkway at Jane Macon Middle School.

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

A Laurens County child is said to be in critical condition after he was hit by a tractor during the Mothers Day weekend.

Local headlines Sunday, May 10 Bank of Dudley: We Are a Community Bank In October 1905, a little bank opened its doors in downtown Dudley.

Country Singer Brad Paisley sings a song called Alcohol which tells all the things drinking alcohol can make a person do, but what the song doesnt mention is what a Rentz teen may soon find out: that a few minutes of running an alcohol-fueled mouth and spitting could land him in prison for 20 years and facing a $10,000 fine.

If the county commission is meeting, Richard and Carol Whitworth are there. Twice a month - first and third Tuesdays at 4 p.m. at the courthouse annex - the retired couple is there to listen to issues and the votes - that affect daily life of all Laurens County residents.

Lynn Poe, a volunteer with Coliseum Northside Hospital, was one of three recipients of the 2008 Frist Humanitarian Award.

Local residents can be pleased to know their efforts have made this 40th Earth Day Birthday celebration a success for the county.