The Jenkins County Senior Center was nominated for Rural Senior Center of the Year by the CSRA Regional Commission out of Augusta. The Center placed 2nd place with only a two-point difference in ...

The 51st Fair on the Square, sponsored by Main Street Millen, gets underway at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, on the Jenkins County Courthouse lawn. The event features a parade through downtown Millen at 10 ...

On Sunday, Sept. 27, at approximately 4:15 a.m. Millen Police Department officers responded to Eagle Pharmacy, 936 E. Winthrope Avenue, regarding an alarm call. Upon arrival, officers found a front ...

Jenkins County High School 12th grader Inari Powell is the first student to enroll in the Jenkins County School System’s Youth Apprenticeship Program (YAP), an option for students enrolled in the ...

OUR POLICY This section is a complimentary service for Jenkins County churches hosting free public services. We will run your church news for two weeks. Church bake sales, yard sales, out-of-county ...

{your guide to events in Jenkins County} (The deadline for submitting items for inclusion in the „WhatÊs Next‰ Column is 12 p.m. Fridays.) Hospital Authority to meet Oct. 1 The regular meeting of the ...

Georgia public school teachers have mostly found artificial intelligence to be a time-saving tool that makes them better at their jobs, but they say it is more of a burden than a benefit for students.

The Millen News often receives requests from citizens regarding information that may be in the newspaper’s archives. Unfortunately, the older issues of the newspapers are so fragile that they are not ...

An advertisement appearing in the legal pages in this issue of The Millen News calls attention to properties recently added to the City of Millen’s Blighted Property list. To be placed on the list, ...

The Jenkins County Board of Commissioners have named Tracie Coney to complete the unexpired term of District 1 Commisioner Cynthia McNeely. Ms. McNeely passed away last month, leaving the majority on ...

National Senior Citizens’ Day was celebrated at the Jenkins County Senior Center, while reminiscing about how life used to be “back in the day”. Children spent the afternoons playing outside until the ...

A routine roadblock last week on Joe Waters Road was more than Akeem Ajmia Lanier bargained for when the Georgia State Patrol and Jenkins County Sheriff’s Office stopped a white SUV driven by Lanier.