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Jonathan Scott, Winterville’s cultural heritage director, holds a metal artifact earlier this month. The city plans a nearly year-long celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. (Neva Drane/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Jonathan Scott, Winterville’s cultural heritage director, holds a metal artifact earlier this month. The city plans a nearly year-long celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. (Neva Drane/The Oglethorpe Echo)

From coal to commemoration

Neva Drane
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Several Winterville locals opted for coal in their stockings this Christmas. Only the pieces were around 200 years old, uncovered by Cultural Heritage director Jonathan Scott during his archaeological digs of the town.  They were packaged and sold for $3 by the Winterville Heritage Foundation.
(The Oglethorpe Echo File Photos & Submitted Photos)

(The Oglethorpe Echo File Photos & Submitted Photos)

Arts!Oglethorpe celebrates three decades on the stage

Jennifer Xia
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
  In 1995, Sonja Roach stood behind a curtain in the Oglethorpe County High School cafeteria, waiting to take the stage as an Irish mother in Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” with Oglethorpe Community Theater.
Penny Miller (right), who is directing “Shrek the Musical,” works with Bradley Sullivan (left), who will play Shrek, and Killian Ross (center), who will play Fiona, in a rehearsal at the Historic Crawford School on Monday. The show will close Arts!Oglethorpe’s 30th season. (Photo/Emma Greene)

Penny Miller (right), who is directing “Shrek the Musical,” works with Bradley Sullivan (left), who will play Shrek, and Killian Ross (center), who will play Fiona, in a rehearsal at the Historic Crawford School on Monday. The show will close Arts!Oglethorpe’s 30th season. (Photo/Emma Greene)

Arts!Oglethorpe closes 30th season with ‘Shrek the Musical’

Emma Greene
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Arts!Oglethorpe will wrap up its 30th season with a production of “Shrek the Musical,” set to open Friday, June 20 at the Historic Crawford School.  The show will run for two weekends, from June 20–22 and June 26–28.