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Martha Edna Bullock

Martha Edna Bullock

Obituary: Martha Edna Bullock

News Staff
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Martha Edna Bullock, 99, of Crawford, passed July 7, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Edgar Floyd & Ita Price Morgan; also preceded in death by a husband, James Loden Bullock.
Oglethorpe County High School girls basketball and softball coach Brianna Dickens has had a busy summer running youth camps for both sports.(SUBMITTED PHOTOS)

Oglethorpe County High School girls basketball and softball coach Brianna Dickens has had a busy summer running youth camps for both sports.(SUBMITTED PHOTOS)

No rest for Dickens with softball, basketball camps

Owen Warden
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Oglethorpe County High School volleyball and girls basketball coach Brianna Dickens has kept herself and her teams busy this offseason.
Sydnie Henderson, a junior at OCHS, is one of the top track and cross country athletes in Oglethorpe County. (CARSON REYNOLDS/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Sydnie Henderson, a junior at OCHS, is one of the top track and cross country athletes in Oglethorpe County. (CARSON REYNOLDS/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Junior Olympic team builds on county’s track tradition

Owen Warden
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Oglethorpe County’s strength in track and field continues.   Seven youth — aged 18 and younger — from Oglethorpe County were selected to participate in the AAU Junior Olympics.
Sarah Collins, who lives on Harris Drive, stressed the poor condition of Harris Drive, which includes paving in need of repair and overgrown trees and brush, which need to be trimmed. (SARAH COLLINS/FOR THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Sarah Collins, who lives on Harris Drive, stressed the poor condition of Harris Drive, which includes paving in need of repair and overgrown trees and brush, which need to be trimmed. (SARAH COLLINS/FOR THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

BOC approves school zone speed limit changes on Highway 22

Garrett Kicklighter
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Oglethorpe County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved speed limit changes on Highway 22 as a part of the On System List of Roadways at Monday’s meeting.
Pageants are a family affair for the Raines family. The support for Madalyn (front left)), who is 11 years old, and Isabella (front right), who is 5, includes (from left) Brandy, Grayson and Chris (Madalyn’s mom, brother and dad), and Ian and Megan (Isabella’s mom and dad). (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Pageants are a family affair for the Raines family. The support for Madalyn (front left)), who is 11 years old, and Isabella (front right), who is 5, includes (from left) Brandy, Grayson and Chris (Madalyn’s mom, brother and dad), and Ian and Megan (Isabella’s mom and dad). (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Raines duo adds national pageant titles to resumes

Jesse Wood
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated Madalyn Raines’ age as 12. Also, Amber Poindexter, her pageant coach, doesn’t buy or store her costumes. This version has been edited to include the correct information as provided by the Raines family.

Coroner caseload on par with past

Avni Trivedi
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Summer usually results in a lighter caseload for Oglethorpe County Coroner James Jackson, with the winter and spring being the busiest times of the year.    “Especially for the older generations that have health problems, weather really plays a factor in that,” Jackson said.
Arthur Burt works in a Kinetic by Windstream truck in Oglethorpe County earlier this month. Kinetic workers are installing optical fiber in Crawford and Lexington. (DINK NESMITH/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Arthur Burt works in a Kinetic by Windstream truck in Oglethorpe County earlier this month. Kinetic workers are installing optical fiber in Crawford and Lexington. (DINK NESMITH/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Broadband installation slowly expanding

Julianne Akers
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Broadband internet installation in Oglethorpe County — deriving from the $7.9 million in funds Spectrum received in January — is in the “very early stages of engineering,” said Oglethorpe County District 4 Commissioner Will Brown, who is chair of the county’s Economic Development Authority.
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Holtzclaw hired as transportation director

McCain Bracewell
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Oglethorpe County Board of Education approved Zachary Holtzclaw as the new transportation director at its board meeting on June 15. This came after Collin Cherry’s recommendation to take the position was withdrawn on June 13.
Bags filled with hate messages and weighed down by wood pellets have been found in driveways around Lexington and other parts of the county. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Bags filled with hate messages and weighed down by wood pellets have been found in driveways around Lexington and other parts of the county. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Sheriff’s Office investigating baggies with antisemitic notes

Julianne Akers
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Lexington’s Bob Henkel was on his morning walk where Old Stephens Road becomes Gilmer Street on July 4, when he saw the first bag.    “Then, I turned left onto Boggs Street, and I saw another one there. And then as I wandered up and down Church Street, I saw them over there as well,” he said.