Food and Features

When Lamar Arts became the sole tenant of the Barnesville Depot in 2004, the board members quickly realized that dues and small donations could not support the Gallery, said current president John Votaw. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

Sydney Tenney has signed a grant-in-aid to run track and cross country at Columbus State University for coach J.D.

Evilsizer who has built a running powerhouse there. CSU competes in the Peach Belt Conference (NCAA Div. II).

Tenney, the daughter of Stacy and Scott Tenney, also excels at soccer. She has been the MVP of the LC cross country team for four straight years. She holds virtually every record at the school including the best time in school history with a 19:49. She has been on the Macon Telegraph’s all-region team for four years and was 4AA runner of the year in 2011.

She has multiple awards from Footlocker. Sydney won the Buggython 5K in 2012 and 2013 and the 10K in 2014.

Sydney is the granddaughter of longtime area educators Betty and Robert Tenney and Sandra Ussery and the late Russell Ussery, all of Barnesville.

The Old Jail Museum, located behind the Lamar County courthouse, will become a film set for much of the day May 6. [Full Story »] 

Confederate Memorial Day will be observed at Barnesville's Greenwood Cemetery Saturday, April 18 at 11 a.m. The public is invited.

The keynote address will be delivered by Al Medcalf, commander of the John B. Gordon Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Thomaston.

The event is sponsored by the Barnesville Blues Chapter of the SCV of Barnesville.

For information, call Bill Lindsey at 770.358.1188.

It was the war that changed everything; the war that America did not want to fight. Many of those who did fight in it have never really been properly acknowledged for their service.

That will change April 18 in Thomaston when volunteers will stage ‘Welcome Home’, an evening of patriotic events to honor Vietnam veterans. The celebration will be held from 4-7 p.m. at Matthews Field. If you are interested in attending or need held getting a veteran there for the event, call Ryan Christopher at 706-427-3344.