Quarterback Josh Jones, Thomson High School's 2011 football MVP, made it official Tuesday. Jones accepted an academic scholarship to Mercer University. He joins a football program that is being revived decades after it was discontinued.

Briarwood's boys basketball team finished the season with a 17-13 mark, falling to the No. 2 seed LaGrange Academy Warriors . Coach Bo Bleming's squad bowed out in the first round of the state playoffs, at Middle Georgia College in Cochran.

The Thomson Bulldogs advance to the Class AAA state tournament after a 63-54 win over Washington County on Saturday at the Region 3-AAA tournament at Josey High School.

The Thomson Bulldogs lost their opening away game against Morgan County on Wednesday by a score of 7-2 in nonregional soccer action.

1962 was a tough season for the Thomson High football team. In Coach Paul Leroy's first season, a very young Bulldog team finished 3-6-1. Little did Bulldog fans know that economic down-sizing of a lumber company near Manning, S.C.

The Thomson Lady Dogs fell to Morgan County in their nonregional away opener Wednesday, by a score of 9-1. "I'm not upset about this game at all," head coach Jessica Ruark said.

The THS Diamond Dogs dropped a scrimmage game to Greenbriar on Friday, 13-1. "I don't think the score was an indication of how we played tonight," head coach Aaron Hall said. "We played a good game.

MRS. JUANITA DENT BASS APPLING, Ga. - A funeral service for Mrs. Juanita Dent Bass, 93, of Appling, was held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Appling, with pastor, the Rev.

Because of a reporter's error, the Feb. 16 edition incorrectly listed the names of Lynn Cato's former teachers, gave the incorrect length of time in her position as principal and misspelled the name of the church program she teaches.

To the editor: For the last 11 years, February is a tough month to get through. As sweethearts celebrate Valentine's day, I am reminded of one of my dearest friends whose birthday fell on Valentine's. She would have been turning 46 this year.

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When Anthony and Kay Coleman got to the Museum Friday night, some of us were sitting in the Theatre with Danny Ray. We were watching him put a cape over James Brown during a fabulous 1965 concert in Santa Monica.

On a more serious note, Anguish wiped her snotty nose all over one of my daughter's friends last Thursday. When I picked them both up from choir, Anguish pushed and shoved, scrambling, uninvited, into my car.

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THURSDAY Thomson High: Golf: Away at Washington-Wilkes; Tennis: Away at Grovetown, 4 p.m.; Track and Field: Away at Harlem, 4 p.m.; Girls soccer: Away at Lincoln County, 5:30 p.m.; JV baseball, home vs. Jefferson County, 5:30 p.m.