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Festival Hall’s Bingo for the Arts fundraiser is set for Jan. 23, 2026. CONTRIBUTED

Festival Hall’s Bingo for the Arts fundraiser is set for Jan. 23, 2026. CONTRIBUTED

Bingo for the Arts to benefit Festival Hall

News Staff
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Greensboro’s historic Festival Hall will host its 3rd annual Bingo for the Arts fundraiser beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, 2026, with tickets now available for $50 each, or $400 to reserve a table for eight.The purpose of this exciting fundraiser is twofold: to raise funds for the preservation...
Ronda Rich/Columnist

Ronda Rich/Columnist

Rich: The summer leaves

Ronda Rich
Thursday, October 30, 2025
It’s the first two weeks of summer when the world is awhirl with different shades of green, blackberry winter has passed, and the days are warmed to perfection, which are particularly enchanting.The trees are fully filled out, and the kudzu has begun its annual takeover of telephone poles and...
Virginia Linch of Butterflies and Blooms at the Briarpatch, welcomed guests to one of Stepback’s numerous log cabins. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Virginia Linch of Butterflies and Blooms at the Briarpatch, welcomed guests to one of Stepback’s numerous log cabins. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Stepback provides living history lesson

Ian Tocher
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Each fall, visitors to Roger Pierce’s annual Stepback event, just a few miles south of Eatonton, get to witness daily life in rural Georgia much as it was more than 80 years ago.
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Adapted softball brings students together from three counties

News Staff
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Students from Greene, Clarke, and Morgan counties came together Oct. 23 for a day of teamwork, fun, and friendship at an Adapted Softball Event hosted at ESP Inc. in Watkinsville.The event, organized and hosted by Greene County Adapted Physical Education teacher Amber Conoly, brought together more...
Photo shows students and a teacher from White Plains aboard a train traveling from Union Point to White Plains. CONTRIBUTED

Photo shows students and a teacher from White Plains aboard a train traveling from Union Point to White Plains. CONTRIBUTED

Greene County Historical Society holding quarterly meeting

News Staff
Thursday, October 23, 2025
The public is invited to attend the Greene County Historical Society meeting and program scheduled Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Historical Society History Museum located at 201 E. Greene St. in Greensboro.The program titled “Union Point and White Plains Railroad Company 12...
Ronda Rich/Columnist

Ronda Rich/Columnist

Rich: School days

Ronda Rich
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Sometimes when my husband, John Tinker, finishes writing a television script, he will skip down the stairs to find me.It’s funny, but I can tell his mood or what kind of news he is going to deliver by the gait he uses as he tumbles down the stairs.
Joe Gransden

Joe Gransden

Festival Hall will be swingin’ with Gransden

News Staff
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Festival Hall in downtown Greensboro will close out its 15th year by hosting jazz trumpet master Joe Gransden with his nine-piece orchestra Dec. 18, performing “Swingin’ in the Holidays.”Gransden, a New York state native who now lives in Roswell, has performed worldwide, and has released 16 albums...
GCFP’s new home means more room to serve the community. CONTRIBUTED

GCFP’s new home means more room to serve the community. CONTRIBUTED

Greene County food pantry marks 18 years with new home

News Staff
Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Greene County Food Pantry (GCFP) is celebrating 18 years of service and a new chapter of growth with the purchase of a permanent home to better serve families in need.Founded in 2007, GCFP has grown from offering a few canned goods to distributing an average of 45 pounds of nutritious food each...
Eatonton native Ashley Quinn of GCSU’s William P. Wall Museum of Natural History made her presentation from The Plaza stage. CONTRIBUTED

Eatonton native Ashley Quinn of GCSU’s William P. Wall Museum of Natural History made her presentation from The Plaza stage. CONTRIBUTED

OSHM presents fossil-fueled lecture

News Staff
Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Old School History Museum (OSHM) hosted Ashley Quinn of the William P. Wall Museum of Natural History at Georgia College & State University (GCSU) on Oct. 5, in its latest installment of “Sunday at the Museum” lectures.Quinn’s presentation, “Finding Fossils in Georgia and the Largest...
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