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Cleveland zoning board approves Cleveland Methodist Church zoning change
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (320+ words) CLEVELAND, Ga. " The Cleveland Planning and Zoning Board agreed Thursday night to recommend to the Cleveland City Council a rezoning request from Cleveland First Methodist Church Inc. The church requested the zoning change for a section of its property from…...
New Jersey fugitive arrested in Muscogee County
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (146+ words) Mitzi is the West-Central Bureau Chief for Now Georgia. com. She spent 20 years forecasting weather and reporting for television stations in Cincinnati, Nashville, and Columbus, GA. Following her career in broadcasting, she worked for 15 years with the American Red Cross…...
Radio and vehicle costs, funding shifts drive fire and police budget increases in Baldwin draft FY 2027 plan
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (685+ words) BALDWIN, Ga. " A series of capital equipment costs, funding reallocations and delayed payments are driving increases in Baldwin's fire and police budgets in the city's draft FY 2027 plan, officials said during a May 19 council meeting. City officials said the higher…...
Baldwin begins FY 2027 budget overhaul amid discovery of prior-year accounting gaps
18+ hour, 7+ min ago (901+ words) BALDWIN, Ga. " Baldwin officials spent a May 19 special-called meeting rebuilding the city's draft FY 2027 budget line by line as a newly hired finance director identified prior-year allocation issues and outlined a shift toward monthly reporting, fund-level transparency and real-time financial…...
Clarkesville DDA weighs fire station, hotel, redevelopment plans for old courthouse property
19+ hour, 24+ min ago (926+ words) CLARKESVILLE " Plans for the city's old courthouse property are moving into a more defined phase, with city officials outlining a proposed fire station location, future hotel development and a broader public-private redevelopment strategy during a Clarkesville Downtown Development Authority meeting....
Rain brings drought improvement to Georgia
23+ hour, 58+ min ago (260+ words) The latest from the US Drought Monitor brings great, and unsurprising, news to the northern 2/3 of the state. Total rainfall in the past 30 days varies a lot from location to location, but most of North Georgia has seen at least…...
Years of tension with lawmakers led up to runoff for Superintendent Richard Woods
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (636+ words) (Georgia Recorder) " State Superintendent Richard Woods has told lawmakers multiple times that reading instruction in Georgia is on the right path " but they're not buying it. Now that discontent has helped drag Woods into a June 16 runoff for the Republican…...
Suspected Apalachee shooter Colt Gray makes his first court appearance after his father's conviction
1+ day, 19+ min ago (198+ words) (GPB News) " The suspected Apalachee high school shooter made his first appearance in court on Thursday following his father Colin Gray's historic conviction for second-degree murder. Colt Gray appeared in Barrow County Superior Court for a hearing that outlined what…...
Safety Hero Award presented in Troup County
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (184+ words) Mitzi is the West-Central Bureau Chief for Now Georgia. com. She spent 20 years forecasting weather and reporting for television stations in Cincinnati, Nashville, and Columbus, GA. Following her career in broadcasting, she worked for 15 years with the American Red Cross…...
Judge grants another delay in Rivera-Sanchez murder case
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (648+ words) CLARKESVILLE, Ga. " The murder trial of Angel de Jesus Rivera-Sanchez, accused of murdering a Habersham County woman in October 2024, was delayed again Thursday by an order of Habersham County Superior Court. Judge B. Nichole Carswell granted the continuance without explanation; a…...