Hallways filled with students, buses resumed their regular routes and another academic year got underway Monday as the Terrell County School System welcomed students back for the first day of the 2026-27 school year.
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The city of Albany's Tree Board, which is part of the city's Engineering Department, will hold its quarterly meeting Tuesday at 10 a.m.
“It’s just a (big) space that was going to take a considerable investment. It’s a great building that really doesn’t meet our needs anymore."
Former Edison City Clerk Tami Fincher has admitted in federal court that she used taxpayer money for personal purchases and pleaded guilty to one count of federal program theft before U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner on Thursday.
Lee County commissioners will decide Aug. 11 whether to apply for state funding to build a $2.3 million roundabout at a three-way cluster of intersections where emergency responders have been dispatched 48 times since 2021.
Houston, a Lee County High School graduate, was crowned Miss Georgia Volunteer 2027 earlier this month and will represent the state at the Miss Volunteer America competition in June 2027 in Jackson, Tennessee.
After chronic absenteeism more than tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dougherty County School System leaders say the district now has enough attendance cases to justify hiring a full-time truancy officer as part of a broader effort to reconnect students and families with schools.
“Everybody came out to look. It gave a lot of excitement in the subdivision here. He started out in the front yard and he ended up in the back.”
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