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Collision injures 2 on Wilkes-McDuffie line

THOMSON -- A head-on collision Friday afternoon along U.S. Highway 78 on the McDuffie-Wilkes County line backed up traffic for several miles, authorities said.Two were injured and one was transferred to the trauma center at...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-31/collision-injures-2-wilkes-mc
Myrtle Wheatley

...Ga. - Myrtle E. Wheatley, 90. Entered into rest May 27, 2013 at her home. She was born November 29, 1922 in Wilkes County, GA. She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert H. Wheatley and Mary E. Stephens, a brother, A.S. Pete...

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Few transportation tax projects starting this year

...year, the Transportation Department said. Widening of State Route 17 and passing lanes on State Route 10, both in Wilkes County, are scheduled for December but are expected to be delayed.Abie Ladson, Augusta's engineering director, said...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-18/few-road-projects-funded-tran
Ann Callaway

...at Second Baptist Church with Dr. Ron Drawdy officiating. Interment will be private. Mrs. Callaway was born in Wilkes County, Georgia and was the daughter of the late H. T. Callaway and the late Mrytice Ogletree Callaway. She lived in Thomson...

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Augusta escapee gets life sentence for Athens assault

...away from parole on a robbery conviction in Athens-Clarke County.That same day, he hitched a ride with a woman in Wilkes County. When the woman told Ford she had to let him out because she wasn't going to Athens, Ford slammed the woman's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-03-29/augusta-escapee-gets-l
Sybil Ivey

...Hospital on Friday, March 22, 2013. Mrs. Ivey, a resident of Heritage Health Care in Washington, was born in Wilkes County, GA to the late William Eris and Annie Lou Rousey Blackmon. She lived most of her life in Lincoln County, having...

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Starting to run? Start with your feet

...Aiken. Sign up at www.active.com . ? Registration closes Friday, March 29 for the 2013 Tough Mudder Georgia in Wilkes County, set for April 6 and 7 (the weekend that starts Masters Week). Sign up at http://toughmudder.com/events/georgia-2013...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/barry-paschal/2013-03-25/starting
Kathryn Dill

...2013 at her residence. Mrs. Dill, daughter of the late Lemuel M. and Eva Inez Albea Butler, was a native of Wilkes County, and graduate of Tignall High School. In 1941, following high school, she was chosen to play with The Atlanta Sports...

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Sales tax rises to 8 percent in Richmond County on New Year's Day

...Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington and Wilkes counties. The sales tax rises to 8 percent for each county except Burke, which increases to 7 percent.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-12-31/sales-tax-rises-8-percent-
Ninety poachers charged in sweep

...of Cleveland, Ga., is facing more than 100 charges, including many accusations that occurred in Taliaferro and Wilkes counties.The list of offenses in those and other counties includes hunting deer at night, hunting from public roads, hunting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/rob-pavey/2013-02-23/ninety-poacher