Traffic on Gaines Street will be temporarily detoured today (May 6th) while city workers repair a sinkhole. The detour will still allow traffic to and from each residence.
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People ready to work are good, but people with the proper training are great. Washington’s workforce has a diversified skill set to serve a community with manufacturing, agricultural, and forestry sectors with high-skill components. And it’s not just in Wilkes County. Our position as a long-term manufacturing hub is also a labor draw from adjacent counties.
Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School is among the top 25 percent achieving high schools in Georgia. WWCHS career, technology, and agricultural education pathways, or CTAE, include forestry, agriculture mechanics systems, business and technology, patient care, and more. For more information and a complete list, click here.
Washington's adult education and workforce development needs are served by Athens Technical College at the Washington-Wilkes Career Center. The center currently offers GED, nursing, truck driving and business skills classes, as well as 130-plus program specializations in business, health, technical and manufacturing related areas by request, to suit each business' specific needs. To learn more about the Career Center, their programs, and offerings, click here.
Washington is also served regionally by the Elberton and Greensboro campuses of Athens Technical College through their ManufactuREADY program, as well as the Thomson Campus of Augusta Technical College. The University of Georgia and Augusta State University also provide university level education within commuting distance.
Regional and state partners include the Georgia Department of Labor, and East Central Georgia Work Source, providing career and business services to Washington's workforce through training, education, and online resources, as well at their Georgia One Stop and Career Centers. Learn more here.
Learn more about our workforce by exploring the current Wilkes Area Profile.
Training never stops. We have the tools to help you with that in Washington and Wilkes County.
Quick Start is the economic development arm of the Georgia Technical College System of Georgia. Quick Start provides high-quality training services at no cost to qualifying new or expanding businesses in Georgia. The Quick Start Program has been nationally recognized for years as the best training program in America.
“There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago...”
Did you know that telling ghost stories around the Christmas tree was a popular tradition during the Victorian era? Even today, who doesn't love Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol"? This year, the Robert Toombs House challenges you to write your own Christmas ghost story. It can be a chilling tale about a haunted ornament or a more lighthearted story about a ghostly great uncle who keeps eating all the sugar cookies. A panel of judges will select four stories to be read at our Ghosts of Christmases Past event. All entries will be compiled in a booklet that will be given to each person who enters and to those who attend the event on December 20th or 21st.
Entry Rules:
- The contest is open to Wilkes County residents aged 13 years or older.
- All entries must be submitted by midnight on November 30th to events@roberttoombshouse.org.
- Each story must be between 1,500 to 3,000 words.
- It should be set during Christmas time in the 19th Century (1800-1899). Time travel is an option.
- While it’s preferable for the story to be set in Wilkes County, this is not required.
- All stories must be appropriate for ages 13 and up. If you have specific questions about this, please contact us.
Please visit the event page on Facebook for additional information regarding the contest and the Ghosts of Christmases Past event. You may also reach us at 706-678-2226. Tickets for the event will go on sale in early November.
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