ANDERSONVILLE, GA It's a day set aside to honor those who have made and continue to make sacrifices for our country.

Gospel music, arts & crafts, classic cars, country music, a parade are all planned as part of the 25th Annual Alapaha Station Celebration this weekend.

The Miss Alapaha Station Pageant at 7 p.m. today at the Alapaha Gym will kick of the 25th annual Alapaha Station Celebration.

The results are in. Candidates in Americus, Andersonville, and Plains have been campaigning over the past month for the respective posts and the day has come where the people have made their voices heard.

Underneath an orchard of pecan trees, hundreds of guests looked on as a line of City and County leaders, state representatives, Phoebe Sumter employees and a former U.S. President and first lady dug their shovels into the ground, and started the rebuilding process for healthcare in Sumter County.

Today is the day that the candidates for City Council have been awaiting. Today is election day, and in Americus, Andersonville and Plains voters will be going to the polls to let their voices be heard.

Memorial Service: The 34th annual Capt. Henry Wirz Memorial Service is at 2 p.m. today.

A University of Georgia student reported he was robbed in East Athens early Wednesday, but he didn't tell the police the entire story.

When Melanie Grace, executive director, Americus-Sumter County Tourism Council, revealed some tourism figures at Wednesday's monthly meeting, everyone was astonished.

Tourists spent almost $34 million in Sumter County during 2008 . That enthusiastically met number was given by Melanie Grace, executive director, Americus-Sumter County Tourism Council, at its monthly meeting Wednesday.

Jan. 4,1901: "Changes in Office Ordinary ... Judge Speer retires to private life after having been judge of the court of ordinary for sixteen years.

Winston Churchill once said, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." Frances Restagno, who will be 83 on her January 12 birthday, has seen a lot of change in her life - not just personally but politically and in the community in which she resides.

Pick of the day The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't known what I'm doing, someone else does.

The Maureen Butler Smith Art Show is located in the Andersonville Trail Association office on the main street near the Wirz Monument.

Tabby Crabb, local legend, will be autographing his 200-page book "Hometown Americus, Georgia," which humorously discusses his growing-up years in Americus and also his eclectic adult life as musician, film and video producer, tugboat deckhand, teacher, movie extra and owner and operator of Flatwood Recording Studio in Lebanon, Tenn., at the ...