Page 30 - Oglethorpe County News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

More than a dozen northeast Georgia area wrestling teams spanning all seven classifications are still alive for State Duals titles as the playoffs head to the Preliminaries, an added round for the 2021 season. The Preliminary rounds will be held at the eight No. 1 seeds in every classification. The team to come out of each of the eight quadrants will move on to next week’s State Duals meets. The State Duals, for the first time, will be held at eight different sites. (Click here to see the sites for the State Duals.) Several area programs are back once again to defend titles or build on soli...

William “Bill” Winkle apparently died of a heart attack, Maxeys Mayor Warren Gilson said Tuesday. Rachel Winkle, owner of the Maxeys Country Store which sold antiques and collectibles, and her husband lived in an apartment at the rear of the store, according to Gilson. When the fire started sometime after 9 a.m. Saturday, Bill Winkle tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher, Gilson said. Unable to bring the fire under control, Winkle went to the Maxeys Volunteer Fire Department next to the store. “He tried to get another fire extinguisher and he apparently had a heart attack and pa...

Perdue is seeking his second six-year term in the Senate, while Loeffler, who was appointed to the seat by Gov. Brian Kemp, is seeking her first elected term. The outcome will determine which party controls the Senate. In nearby Oglethorpe County, Perdue took about 69 percent of the vote — 4,983 — to 2,236 votes for Ossoff. Loeffler received 4,957 votes — nearly 69 percent — compared to 2,258 for Warnock. About 65 percent of the county’s 11,111 registered voters cast ballots, according to state figures. In Jackson County, Republicans easily won as Perdue received 25,786 votes — ab...

Three days ago, the congressman, paul brown, someone asked, who's going to shoot obama? apparently the first question. the newspaper reported that the crowd laughed. brown didn't answer the question. according to his own office moved to another question with the response, "the thing is i know there's a lot of frustration with this president. we're going to have an election next year. hopefully we'll nominate someone that's a limited government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace obamacare." and told "the herald," "obviously the question was inappropri...