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Newspaper in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ. Jeff Davis Ledger: Hazlehurst Weekly Jones County News: Gray 1895 Weekly LaGrange Daily News: LaGrange: Lake Oconee Breeze: Milledgeville Weekly Lanier County News: Lakeland Weekly Lee County Ledger: Leesburg: 1978 Weekly Ledger-Enquirer [1 ...
State investigators were called to an illegal trash dump in Ware County, Georgia, just a few days before Christmas in 1988 after the discovery of a case covered in concrete, according to a Nov. 13 ...
Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15, 1824, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally part of Appling County.. The county is named for Nicholas Ware, the mayor of Augusta, Georgia from (1819–1821) and United States Senator who represented Georgia from 1821 until his death in 1824.
Waycross is the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census.. Waycross includes two historic districts (Downtown Waycross Historic District and Waycross Historic District) and several other properties that are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Lott ...
Close games have been the theme in the playoffs this year for Middle Georgia’s 3A teams. Upson-Lee won their first round matchup 46-45, then lost last week to Carver-Columbus by a score of 8-7.
In 1824, Waresboro was the first county seat of Ware County. In 1860, newspaperman and lawyer Carey Wentworth Styles practiced law in Waresboro, after moving to the community from Brunswick where he had been mayor. While in Waresboro, Styles published the Georgia Forester, a weekly newspaper.
There, he opened a law office and announced plans to publish a weekly newspaper, the Georgia Forester. In 1861, Styles was elected as a delegate from Ware County to the Georgia Secession Convention where, along with the other delegate from Ware, Col. William Angus McDonald, Styles voted to secede. [5]
The first such newspaper in Georgia was The Colored American, founded in Augusta in 1865. [1] However, most were founded in Atlanta. While most such newspapers in Georgia have been very short-lived, a few, such as the Savannah Tribune, Atlanta Daily World, and Atlanta Inquirer, have had extensive influence over many decades. [2]: 119