Joey Syon Mattox, 72, of Pierce County, passed away early Friday morning, January 31, 2025, at Twin Oaks Convalescent Center ...

Mark Anthony Walker, 66, of Alma passed away January 28, 2025, at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, after a short illness. He was a native of Pierce County and son of the late James Barney Walker and ...

Jillene Strickland “Jill” Middleton, 66, of Blackshear, passed away early Monday morning, January 27, 2025, at Harborview Pierce County Nursing Home in Blackshear. Born in Waycross, March 16, 1958, ...

Shundra Owens Vickery, 42, of Blackshear, passed away Monday morning, January 27, 2025, at her residence.

Roman Carter took his granddaughter, Ayla, and friends on fun rides in the snow in his side by side in Hacklebarney. The children sat in a water ski tube tied to the outdoor vehicle and jetted ...

The American Red Cross will hold two blood drives in Pierce County during the month of February. A blood drive will be held from 1- 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 4 at Patterson Baptist Church, 5770 East ...

SGHA Junior Beta inductees, grades 6–8, are (l-r) front row: Mikaiya Dougherty, Violet Anderson of Blackshear and Gracy West. Back row: Daniel Saunders, and Brady Page. Not pictured is Connor Brown.

THOMASTON — Educators from across Georgia gathered at the GHSA offices Friday morning to discuss an objective that would seem difficult to oppose — arranging the association’s seven classifications to ...

Bobby (top photo, right) caught this chain pickerel in the Okefenokee Swamp (east side) while fishing with his son, Hadrian, and Capt. Bert Deener. It ate a strip of cut bait fished along the bottom.