Retired educator and community leader Bobbie Johnson will be this year’s grand marshal for Pierce County’s annual Martin ...

The Dueling Pianos are back.  A dueling pianos program will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, February 8, at the Historic ...

James Robert “Jim” , 61, of Waycross, passed away late Thursday night, January 9, 2025, at his home in Waycross. Born in Miami, FL, August 4, 1963, he served in the United States Navy after graduation ...

Dorsey Jackson “Sam” , 96, of Blackshear, passed away Friday morning, January 10, 2025, at the Hospice Satilla Hospice House in Waycross. Born in Blackshear, July 9, 1928, he had lived in Pierce ...

Valera Sue Colley , 87, of Blackshear, passed away suddenly Tuesday evening, January 7, 2025, at her home in Blackshear. Born in Blackshear, May 11, 1937, she was a 1955 graduate of Blackshear High ...

Daisy 'Skipper' Alfreda Cox , 80, of Blackshear, passed away Wednesday afternoon, January 8, 2025, at Memorial Satilla Health in Waycross, following an extended illness. Born March 2, 1944, in ...

HCA Healthcare, the parent company of Memorial Satilla of Waycross and one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, has been named on Fortune’s 2024 World’s Most Admired Companies list and ranked ...

(The Patterson City Council discussed and/or voted on the following items during their monthly meeting Thursday, January 9. ) Annual appointments: The council approved annual appointments for 2025 ...

Motorists on Golf Course Road are advised of traffic shifts and flagging operations there beginning this week. County Manager Raphel Maddox said residents may need to adjust travel times when going ...

A proposed referendum to extend the county’s special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) was presented at Tuesday’s county commission and a decision is being rushed to have it on the ballot in ...

While some things may change, others seem not to change at all. I am talking about the efforts to drag-mine our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide in order that mankind will ...

Blackshear’s newest restaurant, Smokehouse 84, is open for business. Renovations complete, kitchen up and running, there was ...