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25/06/2025

VALDOSTA — Beneath a hot summer sun, the soccer field at Lowndes High School was filled with movement and fundamentals as more than 50 campers took part in the school’s annual youth soccer camp.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/25/lowndes-soccer-builds-its-future-program-in-the-heat/

25/06/2025

UPDATE: ‘No evidence’ of active shooter at VSU

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/25/vsu-campus-on-soft-lockdown-for-shooting-threat/

25/06/2025

A Forsyth, Georgia, man who federal officials said was a high-ranking member of the Ghostface Gangsters gang was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.

24/06/2025

VALDOSTA — Sports Turf Company has completed a major overhaul of Lowndes High School’s practice field and track, marking another big project the company has delivered on in the area.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/23/sports-turf-company-finishes-another-athletic-upgrade/

24/06/2025

VALDOSTA — The Valdosta Police Department, Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office and Valdosta State University Police Department are investigating a string of car robberies that seems to be connected around the City of Valdosta.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/23/law-enforcement-investigating-car-hopping-spree-around-valdosta/

23/06/2025

VALDOSTA — A few hundred people turned out for the 33rd annual local celebration of Juneteenth, sponsored by the Southside Library Boosters Saturday at Payton Park, next door to the library.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/21/festival-caps-juneteenth-celebration/

23/06/2025

VALDOSTA — SGMC Health has named Sheila Register, RN, of the Berrien Emergency Department, as the June Health System Hero for her life-saving actions during two separate medical emergencies involving coworkers.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/21/sgmc-health-honors-register-as-health-system-hero/

19/06/2025

Coach Mike Helfer’s Boys Instructional Camp at Valdosta State University returned last week with a packed schedule and a clear mission: to teach proper basketball fundamentals, foster friendly competition, and inspire young athletes.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/17/young-athletes-sharpen-their-game-on-the-court-at-vsu/

18/06/2025

Lowndes High School’s indoor facility was full of star power on Saturday as aspiring football players and cheerleaders gathered for the annual Kenny Moore II Free Youth Football and Cheer Camp.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/17/kenny-moore-comes-home-to-lead-youth-football-and-cheer-camp/

18/06/2025

SGMC Health has been recognized as a Surgical Quality Partner by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer accreditation program, a distinction that highlights the organization’s commitment to delivering the highest standards of surgical care and outcomes for cancer patients. This nati...

18/06/2025

After a few years, Valiant Soccer Camp has made its return to Valwood this week, offering kids a week of drills, games, and growth under the summer sun.

Read more at: https://valdostadailytimes.com/2025/06/16/soccer-camp-returns-to-valwood/

17/06/2025

Valdosta City Hall, built in 1894, was located at the corner of East Hill Avenue and was demolished in January 1959 by M.H. Durrett of Albany to make way for a parking lot. The building was said to have been constructed over a well “where old-timers said, ‘the coolest and sweetest water in the w...

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Valdosta had been a haven during the Civil War.

Founded in 1859-60, little more than a year prior to the start of the war, Valdosta was a town created on the move.

The town was created to be closer to a railroad passing through Lowndes County, a rail- road that refused to move four miles away to Troupville, what was then the county seat of Lowndes.

So, Troupville residents moved to the railroad tracks and incorporated the town of Valdosta to greet the trains.

During the war, Valdosta was considered a safe distance from the bloody battles and carnage as the Union Army invaded the South.

Families moved to Valdosta looking for a safe place during the war.

After the war, many of the newer Valdosta residents moved back to their original towns. Others stayed, often at the physical and eloquent insistence of the man who created the news- paper that would become The Valdosta Daily Times.

One-hundred-fifty years ago, March 20, 1867, The South Geor- gia Times was founded.

In the 1870s, the newspaper became The Valdosta Times.

Then, Valdosta was a town of impermanence and wood. Downtown buildings were made of wood.

The first courthouse was wood.

Churches were wood.

A conflagration destroyed the First Baptist Church and threatened to take the rest of Valdosta with it.

By the early 1900s, downtown buildings were converting to the permanence of brick and stone.

What people now refer to as the historical Lowndes County Courthouse was a new building in 1905. A murder trial caught the attention of the state, region and nation. It brought hundreds of people to town as it was tried in the new courthouse.

Responding to interest in the trial, The Valdosta Times be- came a daily publication, changing its name for the first time on Oct. 16, 1905, to The Valdosta Daily Times.

Daily was not seven days a week then. At times, the paper reverted to The Valdosta Times, curtailing the number of days it printed on several occasions through the decades.

The newspaper has been a part of the community for al- most as long as there has been a Valdosta. One of the oldest institutions in Valdosta.

A namesake of the city. A promise then and now of telling the stories of a city and its neighbors.

BY DEAN POLING

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