2015-02-05 E-Edition

City could get official word on hospital loan guarantee in days




Thomasville could be just days away from learning the fate of its USDA loan guarantee application for the hospital. Sources close to the process have said it looks good, and the USDA Rural Development office should be at the end of the review, but those same sources haven’t confirmed if Thomasville has received official approval yet. That official word could […]

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Raptor Center comes to T’ville Elementary


A turkey vulture gets a bad rap. So say the staff of the Southeastern Raptor Center who visited Thomasville Elementary School Jan. 28 for a presentation. Vultures are important to cleaning up leftovers, said Marianne Hudson, assistant director of the Raptor Center at Auburn University. “They are very important to the forest.” Vultures clean up the dead animals in the […]

20th Relay will be last for a while




This will be the last hurrah for Relay for Life in Thomasville 20 years after it started in 1995. “We’re looking for 20 teams and hoping to raise $20,000 for our 20th anniversary,” said organizer Debra Wood. Thomasville’s first Relay for Life was held April 17, 1996. There were 20 teams and they raised a total amount of $28,340. That […]

VA to offer Veterans Choice information




Representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will be in Thomasville to provide information about the new Veterans Choice Program on Monday, Feb. 9, in the L.P. Conference Room at the Thomasville Civic Center. The sessions are at 9 a.m., 12 p.m. and 6:00 pm. Many Veterans will now have the option to receive non-VA healthcare rather than waiting […]

Surprise book announcement from Harper Lee



Surprising news hit the literary world this week when it was announced that Nell Harper Lee would be publishing a new novel. Lee is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Estimates say the book, published in 1961 has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The 1962 movie based on the book won three […]

COMMUNITY CALENDAR



Clarke County Cattlemen’s Association to meet Feb. 7 The Clarke County Cattelmen’s Association will conduct its annual meeting Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Clarke Prep School in Grove Hill. THS football banquet rescheduled for Feb. 12 The Thomasville High School football banquet, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 22, will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 in […]

Guy



Audrey Glenn “Buddy” Guy, 75, a resident of Jackson, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. He was born March 7, 1939 to the late Clarence Alfus Guy and Sudie Bertha Stokely. He was retired from Boise Cascade as an Operator. One of his favorite things to do was fishing. He was preceded in death by his parents and two […]

Pritchett



Willie Mae Pritchett, 88, of Pine Hill died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 at Thomasville Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was born Sept. 29, 1926, the oldest of twelve children of Gardner Eugene and Kathleen Olga Twilley Sealy. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church where she was active in many phases of work in the church. She served […]

Walker



Claire Diane Walker, 66, a homemaker of Dickinson, died Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 at Mobile Infirmary. She was born Dec. 26, 1948 in Georgia. She is survived by her husband, Delano Walker; two daughters, Donna Claire Morgan (Bob) Matthews and Shelia Bender; two sons, Hamilton Bender, III and Levi (Kristi) Bender; three sisters, Donna Byrd, Sharon Lee Davis and Cherry […]