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Sub-contract worker dies at Harris Equipment

  A subcontractor working at the Harris Equipment facility in Cordele on June 29, was killed while performing ...

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School board budget calls for property tax decrease

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor The Crisp County Board of Education met in a called ...

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Sheriff’s office patrol unit strikes motorcycle

On June 29, 2022, at approximately 11:20 P.M., a Crisp County Sheriff’s Office patrol unit struck the rear ...

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City Attorney Coleman defines roles, responsibilities of City Commission, Chair and City Manager

In an attempt to clarify the roles of the Cordele City Commission, the Commission Chair and the City ...

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Harris turns a new chapter in its history

  By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor After more than 150 years, the last building of the original ...

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Woman’s body found near 11th Avenue and Second Street

Three transported to hospital after wreck

GBI is seeking information in the homicide of “Red” Johnnie Walker

Two Rescued After Two Jet Ski’s Collide on Lake Blackshear

Two jet skis collide at Lake Blackshear

Cordele Commission revisits Confederate statue removal

Nance, Felton push Postell’s request for training officer

Memories of Aunty Mama honor Mary Beal

Two Arrested in Tennessee for Local Fraud

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M.R. Williams passes away

  Morris Randolph Williams Jr., better known as “M.R.,” 82 of Cordele, GA, passed away at his residence ...

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Dooly County hires interim coaches

    Dooly County High School is pleased to announce that Coach Kieron “Montez” Zanders has been named ...

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Fentanyl Awareness PSA / Arrests made

On May 18, 2022, Crisp County Sheriff’s Office started a campaign to educate the public about the dangers ...

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Mobile home fire on Nappa Road

CCFR responded to the 400block of Nappa Rd yesterday evening to a reported structure fire with entrapment. Crews ...

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Arrest in Financial Transaction Card Fraud

In April of this year, officers with the Police Department were notified of fraudulent activity involving a victim’s ...

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Deriso issues a retraction (sort of) to Hathaway

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor After receiving a letter from former police chief Mike Hathaway’s ...

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Watermelon Days Festival Press Release

The Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce announces the 73rd Annual Watermelon Days Festival main day will be held on ...

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Vienna Woman’s Club place flags at Veinna cemeteries

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Crisp County School System retirees

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Child Molestation Arrest

On April 25th 2022, a report was filed with the police department concerning Paul Willis being accused of ...

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Crisp voters say yes to Kemp, Herschel and BOE referendum

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor In Crisp County former University of Georgia football star Herschel ...

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Multiple arrests made in recent shootings

Multiple Arrests Made In Recent Shootings Multiple arrests have been made in connection with a string of violent ...

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Fentanyl Awareness PSA

    CRISP COUNTY- May 18, 2022 Fentanyl is here in Crisp County, and it is killing citizens. ...

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Charittie Walker awarded SGTC Smallwood-Sondron Law Enforcement Academy scholarship

    Charittie Walker of Arabi, GA, was awarded the Smallwood-Sondron Law Enforcement Academy Scholarship at the conclusion of ...

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Crisp Regional breaks ground on 16th Avenue facility

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor More than 75 Cordele and Crisp County officials along with ...

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Beal-Shephard tries to weather the storm over City HallBy Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor Cordele City Commissioner Vesta Beal-Shephard was elected in 2001 to represent the people of Ward One. By all accounts, she has done a very good job of relating to the citizens living in her ward. Recently, however, a dark cloud has settled over City Hall. From the first day of his term, newly-elected commission chairman Joshua Antwan Deriso began taking verbal snipes on social media at some of the other commissioners. Shephard says she just ignored it at first but on April 9, Deriso posted on Facebook “…It was much anticipated for Comm. Rainey to be against change. Comission (sp) Shephard fights against me the hardest…does not know much about government at all…She needs to be voted out next year 2023.” A few days later, he posted live saying …“I am totally over the games, the political stuff…a lot of people want to make what I said about Commissioner Shephard something about disagreement with Commissioner Shephard. It was her ignorance and short-sightedness…not able to understand what we can do as a government. “When there were people in charge that didn’t look like us…white people… she didn’t question anything. Since I became chairman, she has blocked everything…you don’t know what you are doing; you don’t know what you are talking about.” Shephard winces as she listens to Deriso. “I don’t do drama and I don’t do pettiness,” she said. “I refute everything he has said about me. I’m not angry with Josh; I am somewhat disturbed that he has targeted me, a citizen of Cordele; a black female…he accused me of loving white folks. Well I do love white folks, and brown folks and black folks — Haitian, Jamaican, Indian, Cuban, Mexican — I have no discrimination to anyone. My job is to facilitate for people in this ward and when I vote, I vote my conviction.” Shephard said she doesn’t know why Deriso has such hard feelings against her. “It’s so sad, I have to say that I never saw it coming,” she said. ”But I have to voice my opinion.” But one sad thing has evolved from this. “This is the first time I have been discriminated against by a fellow commissioner,” she said. “I used to invite people to my home if they had a problem. But I had to stop that. If you want to meet with me, we will have to go to a public area or to my office at city hall. I am going to keep my distance for the simple reason that I don’t want to endanger myself.

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor Cordele City Commissioner Vesta Beal-Shephard was elected in 2001 to ...

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Let’s talk about all that bass!

Vermont Terry of Cordele was all smiles as he landed a 7 pound 15 ounce largemouth bass Sunday ...

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Deriso, Commission refute charges against them

    By Neil B. McGahee Managing Editor Contrary to the Biblical Joshua who marched around Jericho seven ...

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Traffic Stop Leads to Drug Arrest

  On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, around 6:20 P.M., a Crisp County Sheriff’s Deputy arrested Kristian Stucky, a ...

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Heard is Cordele’s New Police Chief

  By Neil B. McGahee, Managing Editor On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, Jalon Heard was sworn in as Cordele’s ...