Twenty-five years to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, veterans and their families gathered Friday at Veterans Park to dedicate a monument to those who served in the Global War on Terror.
Georgia State School Superintendent Richard Woods said Thursday that a new partnership training Lee County High School seniors to become certified firefighters could serve as a blueprint for school districts across the state.
Lee County will study traffic speeds along Winifred Road and consider lowering the posted speed limit following residential growth and the resurfacing of the increasingly traveled corridor.
A standing-room-only crowd erupted in applause Tuesday after Lee County commissioners rejected a request to expand general commercial zoning along Ledo Road beside the Palmyra subdivision.
With three overdue audits, no Mauldin & Jenkins briefing on Thursday’s agenda and funding deadlines approaching, the larger question is increasingly urgent: How will Dawson pay to finish the work, and what will further delay mean for the future reliability of the city’s water and wastewater systems?
An abandoned home in Dawson sits overgrown and deteriorating, one example of the city’s ongoing struggle with blighted and unusable housing. Dawson’s long-range planning documents identify both a high vacancy rate and a need for more safe, affordable housing. Staff Photo: Kathryn Crockett
Albany police recorded 1,200 crimes against persons from January through July. In the same seven months of 2025, they recorded 1,202 — a difference of two incidents.
More than a century after organized Scouting first took root in Southwest Georgia, local leaders say the program is working to preserve its traditional mission while adapting to a new generation of young people.
The City of Dawson will move ahead with its fiscal year 2027 budget before completing external audits that remain unfinished, city officials told The Dawson News on July 31 — more than three months after the newspaper began requesting the financial records behind the city's decisions.
As Dawson’s finance director resigns and operating pressures mount, records show $10.2 million in sewer funding, frozen loans, missing audits and gaps in the public accounting of project money.
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