Community theater is just what the name implies. It is built by the hard work of volunteers, maintained by the loyal support of patrons and benefactors through donations of money, goods and services, staffed by volunteer actors, musicians, set-builders, sound and light technicians, costumers and makeup artists, and anyone else it takes to cooperatively put [...]

Moving Larry Briles’ fleet of ships is not an easy task, even though no water or wind is required. Larry and his wife, Dee, moved to Bainbridge this summer after selling their home in Sarasota, Fla., and found they needed to bring their model ships a few at a time in their automobile, rather than [...]

Talented local artist Mary Barber Cox is the mother of four successful daughters and an art instructor who has taught many, but perhaps one of her longest-running legacies is her drawings that adorn the annual Bainbridge Christmas ornaments. Since 1991, the Bainbridge Downtown Development Authority has commissioned Cox to do one of her detailed line-art [...]

A group in Decatur County has a grape-stomping, wine-making, good time get-together each year on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. That is when some St. John’s Episcopal Church members, and relatives and friends of Joe and Deborah Clark, gather at the Clarks’ Booster Club Road vineyard to pick and stomp the fall harvest of [...]

Little did Jerry Henry know what he was starting when he surprised his wife, Patsy, with the gift of a live, white pet rabbit in March 2003. They named it, appropriately, “Bunny Rabbit.” What started out as one rabbit, soon became two. The Henrys were both so taken with Bunny Rabbit, whom they believed to [...]

It was a way of life.

It was a way of life that had to be vigorously defended. It was a Southern white folks way of life, in rural stump political speeches, in power legislation and advanced by power legislators, and locked securely in the minds of most white Southern voters and local politicians.

Robert and Emily Yent and their friend Michelle Holleman have embarked on a new hobby. They have chosen to become apiarists—more commonly known as beekeepers. Under the tutelage of a mutual friend, Jim York, they studied and prepared to establish their bee hives. There was much preparation to be done before the bees arrived. In [...]

The scene is the Mount Zuma Missionary Baptist Church located on Vada Road. It is a Sunday—May 29, at 5 p.m. The pews are full of men, women and children, quietly visiting with each other. Up at the front of the church a young man sits randomly tapping away on a set of trap drums, [...]

Bainbridge College offers many fantastic programs to our community already, but has recently added a new department. As of August 2010, the college began offering a one-year program for students to earn a cosmetology diploma. “I’m honored to get to be a part of this program at Bainbridge College. I have a lot of school [...]

A special love for animals is demonstrated daily by two women in Decatur County who serve as devoted foster care providers for dogs and cats from the Bainbridge-Decatur County Humane Society. Kimberly Boyett, owner of Kimberly’s Pet Salon, is licensed through the Department of Agriculture, Animal Protection Division, to board and groom pets. She has [...]