Thunder Over Augusta Armed Forces Day military tribute festival will be Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Evans. Motorists will find detours around the area from 8 a.m. Saturday until midnight.
The Annual
Marion and Lucille Paschall Scholarship Oratorical Contest will be held on
Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 10 o’clock a.m. at Springfield Baptist Church located
at 523 Martin Luther King Street, Thomson, Georgia. Scholarships in the amount of $600, $300, and $100 will be awarded to first,
Hank Huckaby, the chancellor of the University System of Georgia, will be the main speaker for the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Post-Legislative Breakfast Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
The Lakeside High School girl's tennis team avenged their only loss of the year, defeating Starr's Mill on Saturday, May 11, to win the state Class AAAAA championship.
Lakeside Middle School's Rachael Cundey was filmed by ESPN Tuesday in preparation for her competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the end of May.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and the state Legislature made a bipartisan effort this pass session to correct their mistake that nearly crippled the state's technical colleges.