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Sean Kelley, mayor of the town of Dearing, was sworn into another term as mayor recently.

McDuffie County welcomed a tour group of about 25 farmers from across the U.S. and 16 international diplomatic staff who handle agricultural policy for their countries to tour Hillcrest Farms and McCorkle Nurseries on Saturday, Jan. 8.

Like a once young, vibrant and robust flower that has come to the end of its days, I too have come to mine. Like the vast majority of seventy-five-year-old has-beens, I have also passed my prime. But I have accepted it, it’s not a surprise to me, I see it all the time. Getting near the end o…

The Dearing town council will see some new faces this year. Marlee Rodgers, who works as a veterinarian for Hillcrest Farms and for Wester Veterinary Clinic in Thomson, will be one of those new faces.

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at approximately 2:33 P.M., the McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office 911 Center received a call from an individual who advised a male had been shot on Bussey Avenue in Thomson, McDuffie County, Georgia.

A film crew was in McDuffie County to shoot scenes for an upcoming baseball movie titled “The Hill”.

The McDuffie County Board of Commissioners met for the first time of the new year on Monday, Jan. 3.

Tammy Carden, Film Warren County, has been in Warren County for roughly eight years, and doesn’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon.

The Georgia General Assembly will be convening in January, but some in McDuffie County garnered a glimpse of what likely will be key topics for 2022.

Film crews were again in McDuffie County last week shooting scenes for “The Hill,” a movie based on the life of baseball player Rickey Hill.

Again this year, Thomson Police Department’s Operation Blue Santa helped make Christmas merrier for a small group of area children.

For the past three decades, Judy Reeves has been serving the community of Dearing as the Town clerk.

Owners Laurie Thomas and Taylor Whittle held a ribbon cutting last Thursday at The Face Place, which is located in Knox Shopping Center. Thomas is an aesthetician and Whittle is one of two lash artists at The Face Place.

Heath Rogers, a firefighter AEMT, was surprise when he was named Thomson-McDuffie Emergency Services Firefighter of the Year during the department’s annual Christmas dinner Dec. 4.

Sandy Yelton worked for roughly three plus decades doing numerous jobs before she decided it was time to retire.

The McDuffie County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday for a special called meeting. The board met to discuss and vote on the redistricting map. According to County Commission Chairman Charlie Newton, Phyllis Brooks, elections director, asked the reapportionment office to see if they could p…

A 17-year-old Warren County High School football player was arrested on numerous sex crime charges the day before Thanksgiving.

Two multi-agency drug raids led by the McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office last Friday cracked down on illegal narcotics and netted four arrests.

Police are receiving complaints about a former consignment store, which recently closed. However, according to the assistant police chief the issue is a civil matter.