Sylvania News

A heat advisory is now in effect from 2 pm this afternoon to 8 pm edt this evening.

The Coastal Georgia Regional Development Center will have a second round of public workshops for the expansion of the Coastal Georgia Comprehensive Plan.

An accurate U.S. Census count is vital to Screven County. Those numbers will determine how many federal dollars will be available for Sylvania, Rocky Ford, Hiltonia, Oliver, Newington and other areas of the county.The word must get out to residents of the vitality of the 2010 Census and volunteers are sought to make that happen.

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" Effingham sheriff's drug investigators made two methamphetamine related arrests Tuesday - and are hunting a third suspect - after a deputy spotted a suspicious vehicle, Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie said.

Beth Christina Grisham and Kevin Benjamin Cowart were united in marriage at First Baptist Church in Thomson on December 13, 2008, at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Effingham County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 19-year-old Sylvania man in connection with a theft at a Rincon laundry business.