Verne Benefield, 64, of Nashville died Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 at his residence. A graveside funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Empire Cemetery with the Rev. Mike Bennett officiating. Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. today at Lovein Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Jeanette Powell Benefield of Nashville and a step-son, Randall Gaskins. Lovein Funeral, Nashville is in charge of arrangements.
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County millage rate remains same
Tift County Commissioners voted unanimously in a called meeting Tuesday to keep the millage rate set at 12.183 for both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county.
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The southern half of the 1962 Class AA girls state hoops tournament was played in Fitzgerald, despite Fitzgerald having dropped their girls program in 1957.
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Girls basketball had long road to equality
When Georgia decided in 1945 to play a girls state basketball tournament, Macon Telegraph writer Sam Glassman was in favor, writing that the district tournaments that had always been held were just as strenuous. Days later, though, he wondered about the mental strain it was causing the players.
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Southern problems...some folks got’em
I was able to take a trip down to Tampa this past weekend with my mom to see my niece in her dance recital.We didn’t get to see her dance in her recital. She kept saying she was sick, and we all kept saying, “You’ll be OK...it’s just nerves.”
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