W-WPS Principal Janet Pharr digs deep for a donation at the season’s first Salvation Army collection kettle manned by volunteer Paco Juarez on The Square during Candlelight Shopping last Tuesday. More...

Maybe you heard about the hair salon that opened right across the street from an old established barbershop. They put up a big sign that read: “WE GIVE SEVEN DOLLAR HAIRCUTS!” Not to be outdone, the old barber put up his own s More...

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God of Small Things. Since then, she has been writing mostly non-fiction about India and people’s movements there. She has brought those concerns to this novel. More...

Funeral services for Adolphus Dunn Jr., 58, were held at 11 a.m. Friday, November 24, 2107, at City West Cemetery in Washington. He died Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at the VA Hospital in Augusta. More...

The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners will meet at 2 p.m. on Thursday, December 14, at the ­Wilkes County courthouse. A work session in the chairman’s office will be held immediately prior beginning at 1 p.m. . More...

On Saturday evening, December 9, thousands of people will line the streets of Washington to see the fifth annual Christmas Parade of Lights, when scores of entries, including many floats brightly lighted for the season, will start from Tiger Stadium More...

Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School Future Business Leaders of America students attended a motivational rally held at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry last month. More than 6,000 FBLA members from all over Georgia attended. More...

God’s Chosen Path of Grace is a spiritual path for mankind to walk by faith in God our creator as we live our life on earth. Who was the first human being that God asked to walk on His Chosen Path of Grace? It was Zechariah, a priest. More...

Louise and David McClearen entertained their family for Thanksgiving at their home on Thanksgiving Day, November 23. The home was festively decorated with pumpkins and fall flowers. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed and guests More...

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Jerome Stover Jr. of Washington and Ms. Celeste A. Stover of Canton announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Celeste, of Alexandria, Virginia, to Nicholas A. Hafner, also of Alexandria, son of Mr. and Mrs. More...

Madeline Lee Reeves and Robert Gregory Callaway of Washington exchanged wedding vows in a beautiful double-ring ceremony Saturday, October 21, at five o’clock in the afternoon at Buckhead Baptist Church in Millen. Rev. More...