VALDOSTA, Lowndes County, Georgia – Thirteen licensed clinical social workers from Moody Air Force Base received advanced training in Bi-lateral Analysis and Stimulation Treatment (BLAST), in Valdosta and Moody AFB, Georgia, August to October 2024, becoming the first military installation to receive this certification. The BLAST technique, based on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – More details have been released about the Tuesday, December 3 fire which leveled a home on Shiner Pond Road. This time the information comes from the family who resided in the home. The Joseph Geesford family had lived for some time in the home. …
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LAKELAND, Lanier County, Georgia – Passerbys and first responders alike, have reported that the old “Stapleton Grocery Store” has experienced an unexpected change! An 18-wheel semi-truck driver is said to have swerved right to avoid hitting a vehicle that was making a left turn onto Carter Street. That information is…
By Airman 1st Class Savannah Carpenter, 23rd Wing Public Affairs DOUGLAS, Coffee County, Georgia – Airmen assigned to Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, participated in a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony for the Cadet Park and Maj. Charles J. Loring Jr. Memorial at the 63rd Army Air Force Flight Training Base in Douglas, Georgia, Nov. 22,…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore COOK COUNTY, Georgia – Recently a video has surfaced in which a person makes a pass down the South Georgia Motorsports Park (SGMP) drag strip on Friday, December 6, without permission and after the park operations had ended. The driver of a S-10 pickup truck is sought by the Cook…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore STATENVILLE, Echols County, Georgia – A missing 80-year-old is the subject of an Echols County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) Mattie’s Call search. The ECSO is asking for the area’s public to locate Stella Boldin Lindsey (80) of Echols County. A Mattie’s Call is an American law-enforcement-initiated public notification system to locate missing elderly,…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LAKELAND, LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – December 2, Monday, was the day that the city and county fire department became officially separated by the State of Georgia. The Lanier County News (LCN) has conversed with the new Southwest Region Compliance and Evaluation Manager, Matt Houston. Houston is with the…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – A late afternoon fire tore through a house on Shiner Pond Road late Tuesday afternoon, December 3. The newly formed Lanier County Fire Department (LCFD) responded to the fire near South Valdosta-Lakeland Highway and Shiner Pond Road. The cause of the fire is not yet known,…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – Qwamaine Lewis of Lanier County was one of three people arrested by the Valdosta Police Department (VPD) on Monday, December 2 about noon. VPD received information that a stolen vehicle was in the 1700 block of Largo Circle. A detailed vehicle description, including the license…
By Staff Sgt. Jessi Roth, 93 AGOW AVON PARK AIR FORCE RANGE, Florida – Parachutes unfurled above the vast Florida scrubland as troops descended from the sky. Throughout the day, periods of silent surveillance were interrupted by sudden bursts of gunfire drowning out the quiet rustle of dry grass. After nightfall, the eerie green glow…