The Alamo Volunteer Fire Department is preparing to stage its 18th annual Fourth of July Celebration. As is customary, the event is scheduled for the weekend prior to the national holiday, so the fireworks will be breaking across Alamo’s skies on June 28. The festivities begin at 2 p.m. as vendors and attractions line the park along Main Street in downtown Alamo. Event coordinator S...

continued from page day, June 17. Miller received a total of 130 votes, accounting for 81.25% of the total votes cast, while Hall received 30 votes, accounting for 18.75% of the votes cast. He currently serves within the community as the pastor of St. Paul AME Church in Vidalia and helped to establish the Enhancing Low-Income Neighborhoods Economically (ELICE) group, which has worked to ...

All Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities were placed on lockdown June 18 after multiple incidents statewide, according to a GDC spokesperson. Wheeler Correctional Facility was initially included in the lockdown order, and while some Georgia facilities remained locked down Monday, the Wheeler prison was able to lift the order after a day or so, said Warden Shawn R. Gillis. ...