Board recognizes media program
Last year, the Jeff Davis Board of Education approved a recommendation from Jeff Davis High principal Dr. Greer Smith to enter into a new program to allow high school media students to handle the broadcasts of sports events during the 2022-2023 school year. And the program has turned out to be wildly successful. At Monday’s…
Read MoreChamber awarded Vibrant Communities grant
Hazlehurst Jeff Davis Chamber of Commerce was awarded a Vibrant Communities grant from Georgia Council for the Arts, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, for fiscal year 2023. The Vibrant Communities Grant supports a variety of arts programming opportunities throughout the state. As part of this year’s Vibrant Communities awards, 44…
Read MoreCouncil tackles fire hydrant woes
By MARY ANN ANDERSOIN In a rare move by the Hazlehurst City Council, March’s regularly-scheduled workshop and monthly meeting, normally held on two separate evenings, were combined into one lengthy meeting last Monday night because of training schedules and staffing shortages. No meeting will be held on Thursday evening, the third Thursday evening of the…
Read MoreWooten Gobsmacked By Commission’s Action
By MARY ANN ANDERSON If there is a modern-day, trendy word to describe its counterpart of astonished, it would be gobsmacked. And gobsmacked was the look on Ocmulgee Commissioner Vann Wooten’s face when, much to his surprise, he was suddenly and without warning removed in a vote as Jeff Davis County’s representative from the membership…
Read MoreCPTC is Military Friendly
Coastal Pines Technical College has earned the 2023-2024 Military Friendly® School designation and silver level designation. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2023-2024 survey with 530 earning special awards for going above the standard.…
Read MoreMrs. Jeanette Sandifer Graham, 85
Mrs. Jeanette Sandifer Graham, 85, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away March 7. Born in 1937 in Brookfield to Ben and Georgia Mae Sandifer, Jeanette attended South Georgia College in Douglas. There she met her husband of 66 years, Charles Graham of Hazlehurst. Jeanette pursued a 35-year career with the City of Atlanta, working…
Read MoreMrs. Geneva Williams Lloyd, 91
Mrs. Geneva Williams Lloyd went to be with the Lord at the age of 92 March 1. She was born April 24, 1930, in Jacksonville, Fla., to Frank Robert Williams and Effie Osteen Williams. She and Noel Nolan Lloyd were married in Jacksonville, Fla. They moved to Brunswick in 1962 and worked for Seapak until…
Read MoreMrs. Tammie Lashawn Smith, 46
Mrs. Tammie Lashawn Smith was born Oct. 24, 1975, in Augusta to the late Mary Frances Smith and the late David Crawford. She attended the Jeff Davis School System. She worked as a cook with several businesses. On Dec. 4, 2015, she married Eddie James Jones Sr. She departed this life Feb. 21. She was…
Read MoreExtra inning games featured in JD, Cook series
What a series! Jeff Davis High and Cook High baseball teams went toe-to-toe in a 3-game Region 1AA series last week with three 1-run games that took 29 innings to complete. The series opener held Tuesday in Hazlehurst went 11 innings with the Jackets scoring a single run in the bottom of the 11th to…
Read MoreSoccer boys suffer first defeat
The undefeated Jeff Davis Yellow Jackets went against Fitzgerald this past Tuesday. JD decided to be aggressive early. After a string of passes on the left wing, Gael Valora assisted Fernando Vega. Fitzgerald decided to match the intensity. They retaliated by scoring a 25 yd banger bringing the game to a tie. To start the…
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