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• Seagraves answers questions about EMS
  

  Questions have been floating around town about the current status of the Emergency Medical Services for Sumter Regional Hospital .

• Kids Speak, Why I like Sumter County
  

  Everyone has heard the statement, the grass is always greener on the other side.

• Town Crier: November 25, 2008
  

  Advance Voting: Advanced voting for the Dec. 2 runoff election is held from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. today and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday at the Sumter County Courthouse.

• Local Log, November 28
  

  This Week Americus Family Movie: The free Family Movie at the Rylander Theatre is at 10 a.m. Saturday and the Americus-Sumter County Chamber of Commerce shows "Kung Fu Panda." Popcorn and beverages will also be ...

• Wall, Murray: SGTCa s new Batgirl, Batman
  

  Who is the best crime fighting duo ever? Could it be Scooby and Shaggy? Sam & Max? Ace and Gary? Starsky and Hutch? Batman and Batgirl? Or maybe Vanessa Wall, division chair, Health/Personal Services, South ...

• A very special dedication
  

  A very special dedication was held on Sunday, Nov. 2. Little MaryKate Still was dedicated by her parents to the Lord.

• SGTC crowns Homecoming Queens, Kings
  

  Three South Georgia Technical College Marketing Management students and one Accounting student were selected as the Kings and Queens of the Americus and Cordele campuses at the South Georgia Technical College ...

• Could Americus be film making capital of Southwest Ga.?
  

  Gloria Parmentier The Americus Times-Recorder AMERICUS - "The Little Statue" has already been entered in the Macon Film Festival.

• Town Crier: November 18, 2008
  

  Outdoor Watering Ban: City of Americus residents living north of Lamar Street are allowed to water outside Monday, Wednesday and Saturday while those living south of Lamar Street can water Tuesday, Thursday and ...

• Boy Scouts honor Bill Harris
  

  William S. Harris, successful Americus businessman, was recently named the 2008 Sumter County Distinguished Citizen by the Chehaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

• Area Beat - November 16, 2008
  

  * Firefighters responded to a traffic accident on Ga. Highway 45 South at Sutherland Road where two people were extricated.

• Local Log-Novemebr 20
  

  Outdoor Watering Ban: City of Americus residents living north of Lamar Street are allowed to water outside Monday, Wednesday and Saturday while those living south of Lamar Street can water Tuesday, Thursday and ...

• Childers saves a life
  

  Jo Childers has a story to tell, and it is one that inspired her to be a faithful blood donor at local American Red Cross blood drives.

• Nancy Young: November 18, 2008
  

  The Schley County Family Connection will have a early meeting this month, because the meeting day will fall on Thanksgiving Day.

• Downtown Christmas Open House is Thursday
  

  It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and Thanksgiving isn't even here yet.

• A a winninga Battle
  

  Jerry Battle III sits in his motorized wheelchair in the middle of the floor of his family's living room and watches his younger sister, 'BriBri" or "BB," walk around the room, and listens as his mom explains ...

• A Way to a Boya s Heart - Kids Speak
  

  The old saying goes that the way to a man 's heart is through the stomach. Is it really his stomach? What's up with this saying? Has it changed since our forefathers? Is the way to a man's heart through his ...

• Town Crier: November 11, 2008
  

  Outdoor Watering Ban: City of Americus residents living north of Lamar Street are allowed to water outside Monday, Wednesday and Saturday while those living south of Lamar Street can water Tuesday, Thursday and ...

• Fugitive sought; Citizens warned: hea s armed, dangerous
  

  A "career criminal" described by law enforcement as "armed and dangerous" is being sought "aggressively," according to Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith.

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City Description

Americus is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. The population was 17,013 at the 2000 census. Americus is the home of Habitat for Humanity International's international headquarters, the famous Windsor Hotel (from 1892), Fuller Center for Housing international headquarters, The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, Glover Foods and many more well-known organizations. The city is the county seat of Sumter County. Americus is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census. Americus is located at 32°4′31″N, 84°13′36″W (32.075221, -84.226602). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.7 square miles (27.7 km²), of which, 10.5 square miles (27.1 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (1.87%) is water. Americus, Georgia was named and chartered by Sen. Lovett B. Smith in 1832. For its first two decades, Americus was a small courthouse town. The arrival of the railroad in 1854 and, three decades later, local attorney Samuel H. Hawkins' construction of the only privately financed

City Contained By:

• Sumter County
• Georgia

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 27.7128727806 km squared

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