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West Gadsden Historical Society holds annual…
The West Gadsden Historical Society hosted its annual meeting and Wash Pot Chicken Pilau fundraiser event on Saturday, January 21,…75 years of partnership with a…
The week of January 16-22 is designated World Kiwanis Week, which celebrates an international volunteer organization dedicated to improving…Bear Creek Educational Forest celebrates Arbor…
Bear Creek Educational Forest hosted its 2023 Arbor Day celebration on Saturday, January 21 with a 5k trail run and…West Gadsden Historical Society holds annual pilau fundraiser, unveils new historical marker
The West Gadsden Historical Society hosted its annual meeting and Wash Pot Chicken Pilau fundraiser event on Saturday, January 21, which also included a silent auction, and the unveiling of a newly installed Florida historical marker for the Greensboro Railway Depot. The event was held onsite at the Greensboro Railway Depot, located at 115 Duffel…
75 years of partnership with a community – A conversation with the Greensboro Kiwanis Club
The week of January 16-22 is designated World Kiwanis Week, which celebrates an international volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and disabled adults. In recognition of World Kiwanis Week, and the commitment of the people involved, the Gadsden County Times reached out to the Greensboro Kiwanis Club, currently the only active…
Bear Creek Educational Forest celebrates Arbor Day with 5K run, tree giveaway
Bear Creek Educational Forest hosted its 2023 Arbor Day celebration on Saturday, January 21 with a 5k trail run and tree giveaway. Registration for the run began at 7:30 a.m. and the race itself began at 9 a.m., with over 30 registered participants. Runners covered 3.12 miles of trails located in Bear Creek, which is…
Curtains comes to the Quincy Music Theatre
Meet the actor: Knox Culpepper plays Lt. Frank Cioffi Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, a local Boston detective who is also a musical theatre aficionado, is the star of the musical comedy whodunit Curtains. Tallahassee native Knox Culpepper will grace the stage as the “loveable goofball detective” in Quincy Music Theatre’s rendition of the musical. “I’ve been…
Bo the Elephant celebrates his 36th birthday
What’s the best way to celebrate your birthday if you’re a male elephant? If you’re Bo, you’ll spend your 36th birthday roaming Elephant Refuge North America’s 850 acres with your friends: Tarra, a female elephant, and Mala and Samie, two mixed breed dogs who adopted the Refuge and the elephants as their own. This is…
Jehovah’s Witnesses among the millions of Holocaust victims
On January 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. Nazi terror targeted millions for reasons of biology, nationality, or political ideology, but few people know that the Nazis’ victims included thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered for their Christian faith. Jehovah’s Witnesses, also then…
Ask Judge Smith – An Accidental Lawyer
Question: “Judge Smith, did you always aspire to be a lawyer?” – Sally No, I did not. Allow me to explain how it happened. My late father, Frank D. Smith was a hard worker and a problem solver. When he graduated from high school, he aspired to go to college. However, his parents couldn’t afford…
Death of a child leads to Quincy investigation
The Quincy Police Department is investigating the death of a child. According to a press release from the Quincy Police Department, a 9-1-1 call was received from Arbor Crest Apartments in Quincy on Thursday, January 12. The call came in around 2:30 p.m. The department’s spokesman Investigator Zach Woods confirmed a child was found unresponsive…
Spilling the beans on Quincy’s future coffee, breakfast, lunch cafe – Bantam Bay is renovating downtown historic building for future home of its breakfast and lunch cafe
Downtown Quincy will soon be host to a new place to dine and get caffeinated. Bantam Bay, a local, family-owned business that is known for its homemade pasta, bagels, jams and jellies, and is commonly spotted at Havana and Quincy’s farmers markets, will be opening up a downtown Quincy venue. Jennifer LaCognata, who owns Bantam…