Southwest Georgia’s waterways offer stunning beauty, wildlife sightseeing and fishing. Kinchafoonee Creek offers blue holes for swimming, a waterfall at the site of a former gristmill and a limestone cliff where a whale fossil is visible. For some in Lee County this bounty is literally in their backyard, but for visitors it’s available for an afternoon paddling or boating on the stream. Randy James of the Lee County Code Enforcement Office recently gave a reporter a tour of six miles of the stream.
Alan has been a reporter for 30 years, including at The Moultrie Observer, Thomasville Times-Enterprise and The Albany Herald. His favorite book is “Catch-22,” and he has an Australian shepherd/American bulldog mix named Maxwell.
“We’re taking the original building back to, hopefully, it’s glory days. One of the cool things about the project is we are going to restore the balcony. It’s going to have a balcony, so it’s going to be super cool.”
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.
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