Grand re-opening of Dit’s Market tomorrow. Gas will be $3.50.9 per gallon beginning at 9 a.m. until it runs out! Come on out for a bargain at 2662 High Falls Road. Oscar Gresham and Nancy Gresham, owners, will be grilling hamburgers and hotdogs and will have cateloupes and watermelons fresh from Cordele, Georgia. Melons will […]

Visit new owners John and Carol Carlisle for an Open House today at the Old Coca-Cola Building from 4-6pm. The Coke Building is located at 410 East Taylor Street. If you haven’t seen it in a while, you will be in for a pleasant surprise!

The Spalding County Sheriff’s Department, Griffin Police Department, Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, Pike County Sheriff’s Department and the Henry County Police Department have been plagued with numerous reports coming in about tail gates from pick up trucks being stolen according to Sheriff Stewart.  Investigators have been working hard on recovering the stolen property and conducted […]

Press Release, Griffin Police Dept.:  On Thursday May 26, 2011 at 6:10 A.M. the Griffin Police Department responded to a report of a person standing on the ledge of the Highway 16 Bridge and 19/41. Officers located 53 year old Stephen Turner with a steel cable around his neck attached to the bridge. LT’s Darrel […]

The Spalding County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 (Gardner and Gilreath dissenting) to relocate Georgia Highway 155 down North McDonough Road.

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled today that only local boards of education have the power to fund and open public charter schools. The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled 4-to-3 to strike down as unconstitutional a 2008 Act that authorized creation of a new kind of state charter school called “commission charter schools.” The 2008 Georgia […]

The Griffin-Spalding Chamber of Commerce is hosting three upcoming programs that will help local small businesses and entrepreneurs: Free Lunch & Learn on Tuesday, May 17th, 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Griffin Welcome Center.  “How to Modernize Your Business PCs” hosted by Liberty Technology and lunch hosted by Sam’s Club. At 1:30 p.m. on […]

The first event for 2011 high school graduates and their families will be Baccalaureate on Wednesday, May 25, at 7:00 pm at First Assembly of God Church. The service is a combined one to include both high schools. Tickets for family members of graduates will be distributed to graduates at their high school by school […]

Haisten McCullough Funeral Home will be hosting the Bloodmobile for the American Red Cross on May 16 from 2 p.m. until 7:00.  This “Memorial Blood Drive” to allow our families and friends to donate in memory of a lost loved one.  Those who donate will also be entered in a drawing to win two free airline […]

Brad Haire, UGA – For many years, Georgia’s tobacco industry has been declining. And this year looked to be its lowest point. But demand for U.S. tobacco in Asia has given Georgia tobacco farmers what could be a much-needed lift. Georgia farmers recently finished planting what is expected to total 14,000 acres of tobacco, 2,000 acres […]