Pictured sitting on the front row on the right is new Americus-Sumter head football coach Reginald Mitchell. Mitchell is joined by his wife Melony (front left), and sons Justin (back left) and Xavier (back right).
The Americus-Sumter County High School South football team expects a great season with the hiring of the first Black coach in the school's history. Reginald Mitchell, a former Valdosta Wildcats football standout, said from what he has seen so far in this week's spring practice, he believes he has a solid team. He is a defensive minded coach. "I like our chances just as much as anyone else in the region," said Mitchell, who takes the job after leaving as the defensive coordinator for Tift County High School. "I'm very enthusiastic and eager to get started."....Full Story
Giving the new face of civil rights a vote of confidence that a change was needed in Sumter County, 400 people packed the inaugural Freedom Fund Banquet of the new GAAAP in April. The banquet for GAAAP (God's Army for the Advancement of All People), formerly the local Americus-Sumter County Branch of the NAACP, was attended by various churches, businesses,
agencies, fraternities, sororities and citizens in and around Sumter County. The evening's highlight included the high-profile billionaire attorney Willie Gary as the keynote speaker. Standing at the podium in the Hangar Gymnasium at South GA Technical College, Dr. Oneida Ingram of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. opened the banquet with a discussion of the event's theme - "A Change Has Come, The Chain Has Been Broken.".....Full Story
The Southwestern Circuit Misdemeanor Probation Department (SCMP) was created in 2010 as the brain child of Chief Judge R. Rucker Smith. Previously in the Southwestern Circuit, as with most other circuits in the state, misdemeanor probation was run by private companies contracting with the individual courts in the counties and the municipalities. Judge Smith recognized the large volume of local resources being contributed by our community to the profit of companies that were not located in or providing benefits to our local communities or economy. By creating a semi-government, non-profit organization to provide misdemeanor probation services in the Circuit, the profit previously realized by the private entities would be held in trust by the Court Services Office to be utilized for the benefit of our community........Full Story
