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awarded to the Wheeler
County Schools to build a
telemedicine and distance
learning network.
Elementary school
teacher Karen Walker was
named the Montgomery
County School District’s
Teacher of the Year.
Ronnie Bates of Lau
rens County was named
federal grant for runway
repairs. The airport is a lo
cal rock star as it continues
to operate in the black.
Memorial Health
Meadows Hospital intro
duced the community to
its new Da Vinci XI ro
botic surgical equipment
during an open house on
November 18. The new
equipment will help mini
mize invasive surgical pro
cedures.
December 1:
erations traced to Mexico
and Central America. The
laborers were brought in
to work on South Georgia
farms and two of the sus
pects were from Toombs
County.
Julie Caraballo, a sev
enth grade teacher and
18-year veteran educator,
was named Vidalia City
Schools Teacher of the
Year.
December 8:
Captain James Jer-
Meadows Fitness Center
reopened under new man
agement in November. An
open house was held De
cember 16.
Malique Rheam Har
rington, Jr., was found
guilty of three of five
charges in the 2018 shoot
ing death of Jerry Clark,
Jr., at Raymonia Apart
ments.
December 22:
The Vidalia Woman’s
Club, which disbanded
this year, donated pro
ceeds from the sale of its
club building to various
community projects, in
cluding paving Pinecrest
Cemetery roads. Funeral
home director Ron Hall
who has launched an effort
to pave streets at Pinecrest
Cemetery. Hall was pre
sented a check for $20,000
to assist the project.
Higgston’s annual
“Christmas in Dixie,” pre
sented by the Robert A.
Toombs Camp #932 Sons
of the Confederacy, raised
funds to benefit needy
families, as well as $7,000
to heart transplant candi
date Tim Evans of Dublin.
Elementary instruc
tor Laura Hart was named
Toombs County Schools
Teacher of the Year.
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1 (4.5-ounce) can Chopped
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Fresh Cilantro (for garnish)
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with special needs.
JOINT HEARING - Members of the Georgia House and Senate Redistricting Committees,
which held a hearing in Macon in August, listen while Ginger Morris, (at the microphone
facing the panel), makes a presentation on behalf of leaders from Toombs and Mont
gomery counties, Morris is a member of the Montgomery County Commission and also
serves as Assistant Superintendent for Vidalia City Schools, The hearings were held in
various locations across the state to gather input prior to a special legislative session on
redistricting.
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Following a multi
year, multicountry federal
probe, 24 suspects were
indicted on charged re
lated to human smuggling
and labor trafficking op
to the Little Ocmulgee
EMC’s Board of Directors
following an election at
the LOEMC annual meet
ing in Alamo.
The names of 16 vet
erans were added to a
memorial in downtown
Alamo during a Veterans
Day ceremony.
Middle school in
structor Elizabeth Adams
was named the Mont
gomery County Schools
Teacher of the Year.
November 24:
The Special Redis
tricting Session wrapped
up at the State Capital
with Toombs, Montgom
ery and Wheeler Counties
in the Senate District 19
and House District 156.
The changes, based on
population shifts, will take
effect in 2023.
The Vidalia Airport
received a $2.2 million
Photo by Deborah Clark
PRESS CONFERENCE — Natalie Ammons, Director of Pub
lic and Government Affairs for the GBI, makes a state
ment at the Wheeler County Courthouse on the shooting
death of Alamo Policeman Dylan Harrison in October.
Also shown, from left, are: Wheeler County Sheriff Randy
Rigdon, GBI Special Agent in Charge Lindsey Wilkes of
Eastman, Alamo Police Chief Karen Zanders, and Com
mander of the Oconee Drug Task Force Trey Williams.
mon was named Chief of
the Vidalia Police Depart
ment on December 3. His
promotion following the
exit of Commission Brian
Scott in August.
Two Toombs County
Schools—Lyons Upper
and Toombs Central El
ementary—earned the
Lighthouse Award, the
highest prize give by the
Blue Ribbon Schools of
Excellence.
Little Ocmulgee State
Park has a new manager,
Brad Smith, who brings
with him an extensive
background in the hospi
tality field, as well as a love
of the history of South
Georgia where he grew up.
December 15:
After closing during
the pandemic in 2020,
