March 25, 2009 RSS feed / Community

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Nicholas Whitaker chosen as student of nine weeks

Jones-Wheat Elementary announced its Students of the Nine Weeks for the third nine weeks on March 17, 2009. Among them was Nicholas Whitaker of Colquitt. Nicholas is the son of Brent and Beth Whitaker of Colquitt. More...

March is Red Cross Month

Please join us and other Americans in recognizing March as "American Red Cross Month." There are patients in need of life-saving blood transfusions in our community, and you can help by giving the "gift of life." Present to donate blood or plate More...

Photo of the Past

Can anyone guess who this young couple is? If you think you can, please call the Liberal before Friday at 5:00 p.m. More...

Count your blessings

By Daniel L. Gardner

My liberal friends and acquaintances continue to plaster butter and sugar over the economic news. But, it is what it is. Liberals won the Congress in 2006 elections. By May 2007, Wall Street saw market peaks. More...

Tomorrow's Leaders

Lila Grace, 10 months, and Cooper, 2, are the children of Craig Frank and Julia Frank. More...

MC Health Department donates picnic table to Spring Creek Park

The Miller County Health Department recently received funds from the Southwest Georgia Health District Health Promotion budget for enhancing recreation parks and services. More...

News Around Us

Bainbridge - Sheriff's Deputies responded to a woman with a knife, threatening to hurt herself, a 14-year-old relative and her own baby on Thursday afternoon. More...

It's Spring "Clean Up" Time in Colquitt

The City of Colquitt applied in 2008 for designation of a portion of the City as a Revitalization Area. Upon the State's award of that designation, the City continues to move forward with plans for revitalization. More...

Proudly They Serve

Air Force Airman Robert G. Wells has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. More...

Library News

by Catherine Vanstone

Your Library to the Rescue With the Georgia Department of Labor reporting unemployment rates for January 2009 at 7.3% in Miller County, the Miller County - James W. Merritt, Jr. More...

Medical breakthrough

submitted by Syd Kinne

A French doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks." A German doctor says, "That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, p More...

Simple but brilliant and full of truths!

submitted by John Pirnie

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash with Wylie Post, was probably the greatest political sage this country ever has known. Enjoy the following: 1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. More...

'45 Life Lessons'

submitted by Jack Warner

This was written by Regina Brett of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio . "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written. More...