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The Plains Peanut Festival is set to put on its 27th annual event in Plains, Georgia on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. The yearly festival commemorates the region’s peanut harvest, a vital crop that ...
Post office in Plains, Georgia, to be renamed to honor Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter - Jimmy Carter grew up in Plains, Georgia, ...
Plains, Georgia doesn’t have a big grocery store, robust dining options or a movie theater. But, until just days ago, it has had a former leader of the free world.
PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - The post office in Georgia will now go by a new name — The “President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter” post ...
PLAINS, Ga. — In this special edition of the Politically Georgia podcast, hosts Greg Bluestein and Patricia Murphy take you to Plains, where an entire town prepares to say goodbye to a beloved ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, of Plains, Georgia, approached Mercer University School of Medicine about opening a primary clinic in his hometown because there is no practicing physician or doctor.
PLAINS, Ga. - The Georgia State Patrol is asking the public for help finding a Plains, Georgia teen who has been missing for hours. Officials say 15-year-old Orianna Hosley was last seen on a ...
Plains, Ga., the birthplace and home of President Jimmy Carter, is preparing to say goodbye to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Grant Blankenship of Georgia Public Broadcasting talked with ...
The first day of memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter began in his hometown of Plains, Ga., and included stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta.
On Jan. 9, after a long journey through Georgia and up to Washington, D.C., former president Jimmy Carter finally returns to Plains, Ga. for a hometown funeral.
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.” ...
PLAINS, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 20: A street sign stands on a corner of Main St. on November 20, 2023 in Plains, Georgia. Rosalynn Carter, who passed away on November 19 at the age of 96.