A Black History Month event will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday at Pine Hill Church, 859 Pine Hill Church Road, Waynesboro, Ga.Pauline Jenkins, the first female and first black mayor of Waynesboro, will be honored.
...dessert reception; (706) 228-3636BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT: Honoring Pauline Jenkins, the first female and first black mayor of Waynesboro, Ga., 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, Pine Hill, Waynesboro; (706) 554-1221PARENTING AND MARRIAGE...
...campaign also reminds him of another historic election, the 1981 victory of Ed McIntyre, who became Augusta's first black mayor."That was a terribly, terribly important moment," Millender saidMcIntyre, a former county commissioner, only...
...the biggest drug cases in Richmond County's history.In the early '80s, he successfully prosecuted Augusta's first black mayor, Ed McIntyre, on extortion charges.In a recent interview, Barfield had nothing but respect for McIntyre, who...
...Norfolk-Southern line at Sixth Street be named, initially for former Augusta Mayor Ed McIntyre, the city's first black mayor.Fryer, whose agenda item Monday was to name the structure the Children Memorial Bridge, said the MLK Memorial committee...
...largest Baptist churches for the ceremony. Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Columbia's first black mayor, Steve Benjamin, attended. Dozens of judges and Perry's law clerks past and present served as honorary pallbearers...
...robberies.Ed McIntyre wins mayoral runo-off against Joe Taylor.1982:Ed McIntryre takes office as Augusta's first black mayor. About 4,000 attend his swearing-in ceremony.State Rep. R.A. "Papa" Dent -- one of city's early black...
...reporters today he was wide awake just before the early morning crash April 21, hours after being elected Columbia's first black mayor.The 40-year-old lawyer and lobbyist was not hurt. Hotel worker Deborah Rubens has been in the hospital for...
...on Monday fired the police chief who refused to relinquish the investigation of a car crash involving the city's first black mayor just hours after his election.Tandy Carter, who was hired about two years ago, insisted that his officers could...
...collarbone and a broken pelvis.Benjamin, who wasn't injured, had won a runoff hours earlier to become Columbia's first black mayor.In 911 calls obtained by the paper, one woman says one of the vehicles didn't have its lights on. In another...
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