Summer is all about vacations, time with friends and summer camps. Looking for a way to keep your child or grandchild entertained in a fun and creative way? The Plaza Arts Center has you covered! The Plaza is offering two summer camps this year.

A sunny spring day dawned on April 22 with a splash of colors in front of The Plaza Arts Center by the reviving of nature and the people gathered to celebrate May Day.

A large group of people was ready to set sails at the Dennis Station boat ramp on Lake Sinclair as the first ray of sun lit the horizon on April 22. The inaugural Masonic Bass Tournament attracted 51 boats with anglers from all over Georgia as well as from Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina.

The Briar Patch critters would be proud. After debuting in 1881 within the pages of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, a book written by Putnam County’s own Joel Chandler Harris, the Uncle Remus stories and their characters – pardon me, the critters – remain active and relevant as the main attraction of the Uncle Remus Museum at the southern entrance to downtown Eatonton, which last week celebrated its 60th anniversary.

The Rotary Club of Greene and Putnam Counties recently announced its Students of the Month (SOTM) for April 2023, including Erin Harvey (Gatewood Schools), Talan Watson (Greene County High School), Justin Zahler (Lake Oconee Academy), Parker Bartlett (Nathanael Greene Academy), and Javier Medina Rivera (Putnam County High School).

The first time Abrielle “Abby” Boatfield visited the Eatonton-Putnam County Library, she entered as a little girl through the old entrance facing Church Street. These days, a major renovation has repurposed that same entrance into the exterior glass wall of her office as the library’s new manager.

Work to develop the site for one of Georgia’s largest economic development projects continues for EV-maker Rivian as multiple cases work their way through courts.

Old-school politics were on full display on April 6 in Putnam County. A tour of a new building under construction. Public visibility and handshaking. An hour-long confab with local officials featuring needs and wants, frustrations and worries, and, of course, money – responded to with blunt stances and few details.

A literal end of an era arrived for Eatonton April 13, as Blackwell Furniture, a mainstay of the city’s downtown business fabric for 78 years, officially began its going-out-of-business sale. Opened in 1945 by John Samuel Blackwell Sr.

Putnam County’s ‘Marble King’ On one of the walls in the north hallway at the Plaza Arts Center hangs a photograph – and with it, one of my favorite stories to tell visitors to the Old School History Museum. The photograph features a boy smiling and looking upward while down on one knee and with one hand on the ground, stretched forward.