My grandmother loved flowers, especially roses. As a child and later as a teenager, I can recall admiring a particularly ...

Millen Rotarians enjoyed a program presented by Jarrod Creasy of Nine Twenty Company at the group’s Oct. 22nd meeting held at Cafe on Cotton. Creasy gave a history of the company dating back to 2017, ...

Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, Nov. 2nd, with clocks rolling back one hour at 2 a.m. Be sure to set your clocks back one hour before retiring for the night on Saturday. It is also a good time to ...

The financial records of the Jenkins County Development Authority received a “no findings” designation on the organization’s annual audit. Executive Director Mandy Underwood delivered the news during ...

Mr. Lee Edward Mosley worked for many years at Look Products in Millen until the factory closed; he also did odd jobs around the community and his neighborhood. He was a long-time resident of ...

The Southeast’s leader in early childhood education is expanding into Georgia for the first time in its 60-year history. The organization recently announced the receipt of a federal grant of ...

Sylvia Newton Summers passed away at home on October 9, 2025. She was born on August 28, 1942, in Millen, Georgia, to Albert Sidney Newton and Edna Spell Newton. A native of Jenkins County, she ...

Jenkins County Sheriff Robert Oglesby confirmed late Tuesday night the death of Cash Elliot Weeks in the Jenkins County Jail from suspected suicide. Rumors of his death began circulating in the ...

Ten couples of family-owned cotton farms in Australia visited Jenkins and Burke counties on Thursday of last week as part of a nationwide tour of cotton farms. The Australian Cottongrower magazine has ...

Wanda Burke has served Jenkins County and its citizens in the dual roles as Jenkins County Probate Judge and Jenkins County Election Superintendent for 24 years. However, due to changes in state laws, ...

On Sept. 5th, officers of the Millen Police Department’s (MPD) Internet Suppression Team (MIST) arrested an Augusta man when he traveled to Millen to meet who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl for ...

A moratorium has been approved to temporarily stop the construction of solar farms and cell towers in Jenkins County until the Jenkins County Commissioners can review and revise the current ordinances ...