Independence Day Celebration in Colquitt enjoyed on July 3 As the year 2010 begins, the news of 2009 is now history. To recap last year, here is summary of the articles found in the Miller County Liberal.

This final glimpse of 2009 will appear in four installments, covering three months in each segment. Here is the third quarter.

July

The Fourth of July celebration held on Friday evening, July 3, was enjoyed by almost everyone that attended.

The gala event was held at Spring Creek Recreation Park and was about as near to an old-time celebration as we've had in years.

There was plenty of BBQ sandwiches, brunswick stew, hamburgers and hotdogs for everyone to enjoy.

The celebration of our nation's 233nd birthday was enjoyed by hundreds of local citizens and people visiting from as far away as New York and Colorado.

– – – – The first candidate who has announced to run for the next governor of Georgia came visiting Thursday, July 16, by walking into Colquitt. He has already walked between 350-400 miles and intends to walk 1000 miles before he finishes his walking trip/campaign.

Scott walking through Georgia wants to be next governor – – – –

It's always good to come back home, if only for a few days.

Last year, Brian Worsley, his wife, Susanna, and their three children, Anna, 5, Mark, 3, and Cristina, 6 months, were in Colquitt visiting and came by the office.

The family lives in Malmo, Sweden, which is in the southern part of Sweden.

August

Manchester is celebrating its Centennial this year and one of its main events will be a production of a play entitled "Tales of a Magic City." The town held story-telling nights once a month during 2008 in order to gather memories from the citizens. These stories were then sent to Debra Jones, Colquitt's own author of several of the Swamp Gravy books and productions, who authored the Manchester play.

Dr. Jones, PhD, has been employed full-time at the Miller County Liberal as an editor for over 20 years, until she went back into the education field. Debra continues as parttime editor and proofreader to date. She wrote several of the Swamp Gravy books and plays while at the Liberal.

Sweden comes to Colquitt – – – –

The new Miller County Schools are officially open for teachers, students and the public. All in all, it was a grand opening.

After delaying the opening day, the Miller County new school buildings were open for the students' open house last Thursday so that they could find where they would be going on Friday for the first day of classes.

Local author writes Manchester Centennial Play September

It was a very exciting day around Miller Nursing Home this past Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Ms. Mamie Widner Daniels of Colquitt, eased gracefully into the 100 years old category. – – – –

It was a long ride over to Homerville, but it was well worth it due to the fact that Clinch County still felt the pain of losing to the Pirates in a high strung, nail-biting, nerveracking play-off game to decide the Region 1-A Championship of 2008. Charleston County shut out Clinch County right in their own back door, and then in 2001, Worth County also shut out Clinch County. Our Pirate defense did a great job adding a Miller shut-out of Clinch County to the statistics.

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Amber Espinoza, the reigning Miss Colquitt, will be representing her hometown of Colquitt in the upcoming National Peanut Festival Pageant. The pageant will be held at the Dothan Civic Center October 2 and October 3, 2009.

Miller Co. Schools have officially started Amber is the daughter of Randy and Diane Haywood of Colquitt. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Vivian Hudson and the late Perry Hudson Sr. of Baker County. She is a freshman at Darton College
Miss Mamie is 100
Pirates Shut-Out Clinch County, 7-0
Miss Colquitt competes for National Peanut title