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The Zebulon City Council recently honored Ralph McCrary as the Citizen of the Year for 2020. He has been employed with the City of Zebulon for 35 years, having worked in both the Water/Wastewater Department and the Public Works Department. Ralph is a native of Zebulon, having lived in the community his entire life. He attended Pike County schools, including the building that now houses Zebulon City Hall. [Full story »] 

Tom Morton is 98 years old and has served as an attorney for an incredible 72 years - including nearly 30 years as attorney for the county and city governments in Pike. In 1991, he became a law partner in the law firm of Crawford and Morton in Zebulon. After his son Robert L. Morton was admitted to the practice of law, Tom founded the law firm of Morton & Morton Associates. In addition, Tom became the city attorney for Zebulon and Meansville. He also served as county attorney for Spalding County and Meriwether County. Over the years, he and Rob have served as interim county manager several times in Pike.
Tom was honored by the Meansville City Council for 23 years of service recently.
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Pike County commissioners heard from county manager Brandon Rogers at their Jan. 13 meeting that the Pike County Health Department is seeking volunteer workers to help in the office.

“There is a tremendous outpouring of people who want this vaccination,” he said. “Angela Farr, the nurse at the health department, said they are in need of volunteers at the office. You don’t have to be a nurse or have any medical experience to help. They need pretty much anybody willing to help.” [Full story »] 

Students at the Pike County Ninth Grade Academy worked together to write and publish a children’s book about COVID-19 for kindergarten through second graders. Around 120 students helped create the book, “Sanna-Tizer Disinfects the Substitute: The heroes’ journey of a teacher and her second grade students.’ The students wrote, illustrated and designed the book as well as working to establish a budget for the book based on book size and color usage. [Full story »] 

Each new year, the Journal Reporter features the first baby born to Pike County parents. [Full story »] 

The jobless rate for the Three Rivers region, which includes Pike County, increased by 0.9% in November The rate was 5.2% compared to 2.7% in November, 2019. [Full story »] 

Georgia Military College Zebulon campus will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Jan. 7 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at 7818 Highway19 South, Zebulon, GA 30295 (by Zebulon City Hall and across from Dairy Queen). For more info or to make an appointment to donate, call 470-777-0207 or sign up online at redcrossblood.org. [Full story »] 

Georgia Military College Zebulon campus will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on January 7, 2021 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at 7818 Highway 19 South, Zebulon, GA 30295 (by Zebulon City Hall and across from Dairy Queen). [Full story »] 

Pike residents have a couple more days to cast their ballots early in the Jan. 5 election. [Full story »] 

Students in the Program Challenge classes at Pike County Elementary School received a little help from the owners of Grey Dog Farm in Williamson recently as they raised funds to provide gifts for every patient at Brightmoor Nursing Home. The students came up with an idea to brighten the spirits of nursing home residents by giving them gifts for Christmas and were helped by Jenny Clausen, owner of Grey Dog Farm to raise the money for the gifts. After reading a previous story in the Journal Reporter about the class raising funds, Jenny - a retired science lab teacher of 35 years - invited the local Challenge students to visit Grey Dog Farm and pick up pecans while learning about agriculture and then sell the pecans to earn a donation for their gifts for hospice patients. [Full story »] 

Pike County’s James Fowler recently portrayed four-time president Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a documentary film. FDR was the 32nd president from 1933 until his death in 1945 and he helped lead the nation through the Great Depression as well as World War II. [Full story »] 

Operation Christmas Cheer is underway for the residents of Pike Manor as Christmas cards have been requested by the community. [Full story »] 

Help local animal rescue Coco’s Cupboard in Molena win $25,000 through the Petco Foundation’s Holiday Wishes Campaign by voting before Dec. 16 at noon. [Full story »] 

According to elections supervisor Lynn Vickers, Pike County had exactly the same numbers in the first election results, the election audit and the election recount which was completed Nov. 30 at 4:30 p.m. [Full story »]