The Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday for the Grand Opening of Abuelos Cocina Mexicana restaurant located at the corner of Cotton Avenue and Daniel Street.

The March term of the Jenkins County Grand Jury resulted in the following indictments. Joshua Edward Jenkins – trafficking methamphetamine or amphetamine, driving under the influence-less safe-drugs, ...

The 2025-2026 school year will usher in a new principal at Jenkins County High School (JCHS). It was announced on Friday of last week that David Miller, a former JCHS assistant principal, will assume ...

My husband used to tell a story about when he was a child and put cat tails into the washing machine as his mother was washing a load of clothes. The puffy plants came apart and stuck to every piece ...

2025 has arrived! A new year is traditionally a new beginning, a time for New Year resolutions and reflections on the past year. Reflections are great and I am all for new beginnings. I recently came ...

Colton and Anna Wilkerson celebrated the birth of their daughter, Riley, prematurely in April of 2023. The infant, born at 30 weeks, weighed only 1 lb. 12 oz. Riley spent three months in the NICU unit ...

The Café on Cotton was packed Saturday morning for the annual Legislative Breakfast. This year’s sponsors are Planters Electric Membership Corporation, Jenkins County Farm Bureau, Durden Banking ...

Jenkins County Medical Center (JCMC) announces an exciting project is underway to update its patient entrance. The renovation will improve patient flow and streamline the registration process for ...

There were no “typical” days if you grew up on a farm in the Blessed South like I did. Back then farming required all-hands-on-deck most days of the year. I’ve often said that farming happens six days ...

Several years before I married a wonderful creature named John Tinker, I had the worst date of my life. In Louisville, Kentucky. Ironically, a runner-up for that honor happened years earlier in ...

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