Crabtree Goes Undefeated In Queen Of The Nest Wrestling Tournament
By EDDY GIFFORD Sports Writer The Dade County High School Wolverine wrestling team was busy last week wrestling ten matches in three days. The Wolverines hosted Heritage on Thursday night and the Generals controlled the action with a dominating 65-18 win. Dade County would wake up early on Friday and head south to Jeff Davis…
Read MoreLady Wolverines Drop Region Opener Amid Shooting Woes
By EDDY GIFFORD Sports Writer The Dade County Lady Wolverine basketball team traveled to Gordon Lee on Tuesday, Dec. 3, for the team’s first region game of the season. Dade County’s shooting woes continued as they struggled to score and at the end of the first quarter the Lady Trojans had built a 13 point…
Read MoreDade Families Qualify For Georgia Promise Scholarship
Submitted article. This month, the Georgia Education Savings Authority (GESA) announced the launch of mygeorgiapromise.org, the information hub for the new Georgia Promise Scholarship program. The Georgia Promise Scholarship provides eligible K-12 students in lower performing schools up to $6,500 in annual funding for private school tuition, tutoring services, and other qualified education expenses through…
Read MoreNASA HUNCH And Greenpower Racing Reach Milestones In Dade County Schools
By LYDIA BERGLAR News Editor Since NASA HUNCH’s early days in Dade County Schools in 2018, the program has reached many milestones, and this is the first school year that HUNCH programs are offered at every grade level, starting in kindergarten. Also, Greenpower USA supplements HUNCH, offering students another STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…
Read MoreJolly Holiday Market: Dade Expo 2024
This year’s Dade Expo was on Dec. 7 featuring photos with Santa, face painting, and ornament crafts for the kids. Over 1,000 shoppers visited throughout the day, and the 112 registered vendors offered a wide variety of items and services. Small business crafters/artists, local stores and industries, and even Cloudland Canyon State Park set up…
Read MoreWolverines Fall By Three To Gordon Lee In Region Opener
By EDDY GIFFORD Sports Writer The Dade County Wolverine basketball team traveled to Gordon Lee on Tuesday, Dec. 3, to face the Trojans in the first region game of the season. Gordon Lee came out hot and put 23 points on the Wolverines in the first quarter as they struggled to score 11 and found…
Read MoreObituaries – Dec. 11th Issue
VERNA BAILEY Verna Downer Bailey, 80, of Lookout Valley, Tenn., passed away Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Mrs. Bailey was born Aug. 8, 1944, in Ft. Payne, Ala., to the late Aubrey Lewis and Lillian Estelle Pell Downer and was a 1962 graduate of Davis High School. She attended the Tiftonia Holiness Church and enjoyed sewing,…
Read MoreRumley And Goff’s Final Commission Meeting, Three Citizens Speak
By LYDIA BERGLAR News Editor The Dec. 5 meeting of the Dade County Board of Commissioners was the final meeting for Ted Rumley (county executive) and Robert Goff (District Three commissioner). Kicking off the meeting, the board reappointed Donny Williams to the Board of Assessors, Leisa Cagle and Seth Houts to the Industrial Development Authority,…
Read MoreObituaries – Dec. 4th Issue
JANET ARNOLD Janet Elizabeth Cope Norris Arnold, 63, of Trenton, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Born on July 12, 1961, in Fort Oglethorpe, to Vera Mae Hays and Herman Savage Cope, Janet grew up with a deep love and respect for her parents. At a young age,…
Read MoreDade’s EMS Coverage And The Challenges It Faces
By LYDIA BERGLAR News Editor Emergency Medical Services in Dade County face a number of challenges, some of which aren’t unique to Dade and some that are. The Sentinel spoke with Alex Case (Emergency Management Agency director) and Kyle Gross (EMS chief) about the current system, what works well, ongoing challenges, and what misuse of…
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