Bonita Hightower, owner of Bonita’s Restaurant in Plains, GA, was very busy feeding visitors from across the U.S. and the world when they came to Plains to honor former President Jimmy Carter ...

If it was late afternoon on a Friday in Plains and Bonita’s Restaurant was open ... give them a quality food experience in southwest Georgia, where President Carter not only ate, but he left ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WTVM) - A restaurant owner in Plains shares her experience on serving former President Jimmy Carter throughout the years. Last week, the city of Plains and the Carter family said ...

By Christina Morales Reporting from Plains, Ga. Plains has no major hotel, a single small gas station and only a couple of restaurants, neither of which is usually open for dinner. Still ...

Tiffany Patten of Columbus poses next to a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter at Bonita’s Restaurant in Plains, Georgia, on Jan. 9, 2025, the final day of Carter’s six-day state funeral.

If it was late afternoon on a Friday in Plains and Bonita’s Restaurant was open, then Bonita Hightower would be ready for a special phone call. It would come from less than a mile away, 209 Woodland ...