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.
A longtime Lee County resident urged the school board to reject a proposed property tax increase during its first public hearing Oct. 8, questioning spending priorities and warning about the burden on families and older residents.
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