Lady Jackets are state runner-ups
Jeff Davis High came agonizingly close to repeating as the Class AA Softball State Champions last week, falling 4-3 to Appling County in the finals of the state tournament in Columbus. Jeff Davis finished the season with a 31-5 record while Appling finished with a 21-7-1 mark. It was an all Altamaha River finals as…
Read MoreCross Country Teams Win Another Region Title
The Jeff Davis cross country teams traveled to Cook High School for the Region 1-AA Cross Country Championships. Both the boys and girls team were looking to defend their 2022 Region Titles, while also hoping to extend their Region Title streaks. The boys streak was at three straight titles (2022, 2021, 2020) while the girls…
Read MoreLady Jackets win Super Regional
Jeff Davis High rolled through the Super Regional Tournament last week at ACE Charter School in Macon with a 16-3 win over Josey, a 6-0 victory over ACE Charter and a 3-1 win over Pierce County. The wins improved the Lady Jackets’ record to 27-3 and earned them a spot in the Georgia High School…
Read MoreBringing new restaurant to Hazlehurst will cost city $78,000.
By MARY ANN ANDERSON While Hazlehurst is steadily moving closer to leasing Sarah’s in the City, a buffet-style restaurant, in the city-owned civic center, it’s going to cost the City of Hazlehurst no less than $78,000. During last week’s Monday work session of the Hazlehurst City Council, Mayor Bayne Stone said that Sarah Boatright, who…
Read MoreBand is performing well
If you have attended a football game this year, you have been treated to some of the finest performances of a high school band you will find. Our Pride of the Pinelands, the Jeff Davis High School Yellow Jacket Marching Band, has entertained the crowd to thunderous applause each Friday night this season. But the…
Read MoreWalker, Brewer win Legislative Showdown
Senator Larry Walker and Jeff Davis County 4-H’er Levi Brewer, brought home the win in the Annual Georgia National Fair Legislative Showdown. It has become tradition of GA National Fair to hold a swine showmanship showdown between the House and Senate as part of the Market Hog show in Perry. The winner of this elite…
Read MoreMs. Stacey Renne Brown, 49
Ms. Stacey Renne Brown, 49, of Hazlehurst passed away Oct. 14. Ms. Brown was born Jan. 12, 1974, in Jacksonville, Fla. She was employed with Johnson & Johnson Medical Transportation and was a loving mother and mi-me. She was preceded in death by her mother, Jenevive Gooslin McRorie and brothers, James “Red” Bellah III and…
Read MoreRev. William R. ‘Billy’ Gardner, 61
The Rev. William R. “Billy” Gardner, 61, of Baxley passed away Oct. 14 at his residence under the care of Comfort Care Hospice surrounded by his loving family. William was born Jan. 13, 1962, in Cut Bank, Mont. He was licensed into the ministry by his home church, Midway Baptist Church in 2003 and was…
Read MoreMrs. Sharon Hand
Mrs. Sharon Hand of Riverwind Subdivision, located in Etowah, N.C., passed from this world to another destination, which our Christian religion teaches is a place of eternal bliss and happiness, on Oct. 16. She was born and raised in Jeff Davis County. Her parents were Eddie Trowell and Gertrude Trowell of Jeff Davis County. Sharon was the wife…
Read MoreJackets fall to Worth
Jeff Davis High’s football team dropped a 49-13 game to Worth County last Friday night in Sylvester. But the game was not as one-sided as the score indicates as Jacket miscues and a barrage of yellow flags kept the visitors out of the end zone most of the night. The Jackets had runs of 30,…
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