Valdosta Daily Times Dean Poling

Roosevelt Marshall

2010-12-16T23:27:40-05:00

Roosevelt Marshall of Valdosta passed this life Dec. 14, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. at Union Cathedral with Bishop Wade S. McCrae, Pastor officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Hill Cemetery. Final rites are entrusted to Harrington Funeral Home.

Alice W. Johnson

2010-10-13T22:57:51-04:00

Alice W. Johnson, 55, of Valdosta died on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 at the Langdale Hospice House following a lengthy illness. Services for Alice W. Johnson will be held at 4 p.m. today, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 in the chapel of the Carson McLane Funeral Home with the Rev. Jay Watkins officiating. The burial will follow in the Riverview Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Langdale Hospice 2263 Pineview Drive, Valdosta Ga. 31602 or to the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, 2121 SW 16th Street Gainesville, Florida 32608. Condolences to the family may be conveyed online at www.mclanefuneralservices.com. — Carson McLane Funeral Home

Independent radio station changes man’s life

2010-09-18T10:00:00-04:00

After years in construction, Cody Fender left building structures from the ground up to building the kingdom of God out of thin air.

Crofts launched Labor Day Gospel Sing

2010-09-04T00:16:07-04:00

Given his involvement with the Labor Day Gospel Sing, many Valdostans probably think Brother Benny Daniels started the event which is now in its 22nd year.

America’s Last Freak!

2010-09-01T00:05:22-04:00

And so it came to pass that a traveling carnival re-instituted a long-lost American tradition: The freak show.

A city of trees

2010-08-11T00:44:47-04:00

Much will be written and said about the architecture of the new Lowndes County Judicial Complex.

Talking to yourself on the phone

2010-08-04T23:43:54-04:00

He was elbow-deep in the guts of a copying machine. No one else stood with him. And he was just talking away.
Not under his breath either. He talked like nobody’s business.

Forget an overpass, 84 needs a leapover

2010-07-27T23:19:24-04:00

A recent event could well hold the answers to resolving a long-term problem and teaching a new generation that just because something looks easy doesn’t mean it is.

Sign of the voting times

2010-07-21T23:00:32-04:00

Maybe we need a new way to elect our leaders.
Less than 18 percent of Lowndes County’s registered voters participated in Tuesday’s primary election. That sounds like a mandate of an apathetic populace that wants to do things differently.

Wiregrass, um, Technical something or other

2010-07-13T14:45:43-04:00

There’s nothing really wrong with the new technical school name of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College. But that’s quite a mouthful for folks used to calling its tech school the two-syllable Val-Tech.