Arrest warrants have been sworn out for the owners of five dogs that mauled a Burke County woman. Michael Little, 40, and his wife, Doretha, 43, are each charged with a single count of reckless conduct following the early August attack near the More...
200 kids get free haircuts through back-to-school ministry
By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com
Something as simple as a haircut can make all the difference to a kid going back to school. That’s what inspired Waynesboro barber Kendrick Walker put together a team of stylists and help 200 underprivileged youth look their best for the More...
A local real estate agent will be minus one partner moving forward. Glenn Whitaker of Hawkins and Whitaker Real Estate LLC will be bowing out of the business as he and his wife Teresa plan to move to Macon. More...
Burke County High School’s softball team, coached by Lee Smoak and assistant coaches Alicia Thompson and Stephanie Collins, started their season last week with the Glascock Invitational tournament. More...
Ms. Dollie Booker of Waynesboro entered into eternal rest Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 18, at 11 a.m. at Watkinsville Baptist Church with Pastor Darius A. Roberson officiating. More...
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The regular season won’t officially start for another week, but both local high school football teams will face their first opponents in scrimmage games this week. More...
An order filed last week by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will mean that Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 and the two being built at South Carolina’s V.C. Summer site will be the only new plants licensed in the U.S. More...
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
We were all saddened to learn of Susan Knight’s death. Susan had fought an infection for the last 40-some days. Many of you will remember her from Knight’s Meat in Keysville. More...
Deputies jailed two suspected thieves who’d been eluding them since their spoils were uncovered earlier this month. John Lee Ward III, 45, had been wanted since Aug. More...
A Burke County man involved in a series of break-ins and metal thefts in the Alexander and Girard areas will be behind bars for a while. Miller Jerome Dixon, 37, pleaded guilty to five felony charges last week in connection with the 2011 string More...
The following are Burke County property transfers. The date indicates when the transaction was recorded in the Burke County Clerk’s office. Loren J. Barnhart to Jason Lee and Meloney J. More...
United Way Kickoff United Way of the CSRA’s Burke County kickoff will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 15, from noon–1:30 p.m. at Augusta Technical College’s Waynesboro campus. More...
Thomas Grove Thomas Grove Baptist Church will host the annual Herman Selvie Memorial Day Celebration program, 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 19. Guests include the Rev. Shellie Sapp Jr., a native of Burke County, and the St. John Baptist Church. More...