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The Lake Country Rural Health Initiative will be in downtown Eatonton Sept. 8 to provide several free health screening tests. (CONTRIBUTED)

The Lake Country Rural Health Initiative will be in downtown Eatonton Sept. 8 to provide several free health screening tests. (CONTRIBUTED)

Free health screenings coming to Eatonton

News Staff
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Lake Country Rural Health Initiative (RCRHI) has announced that it will hold a free health screening clinic on September 8, from noon to 5 p.m., on the Putnam County Courthouse lawn.
Audi-visual Technology Pathway

Audi-visual Technology Pathway

Greene College & Career Academy enters seventh year

News Staff
Thursday, August 22, 2024
The Greene College & Career Academy at Greene County High School is celebrating its seventh year of operation as the cornerstone of career-focused education in the region. One of just 41 active college and career academies in Georgia, the GCCA continues to achieve remarkable milestones.
Jim Auchmutey will lead the annual workshop. (CONTRIBUTED)

Jim Auchmutey will lead the annual workshop. (CONTRIBUTED)

GWM brings back non-fiction workshop

Jim Auchmutey
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Are you a new or aspiring writer with a non-fiction story you’re eager to tell? Are you ready to finally birth that book you have been thinking about for years?Do you hear people say, “You oughta write a book?” Suppose you answer “yes” to any of these questions.
Joshua L. Bruinekool

Joshua L. Bruinekool

Husband sentenced to 20 years for fatal wreck

Lynn Hobbs
Thursday, August 22, 2024
A man was sentenced to 20 years after he pled guilty Monday to vehicular homicide in the first degree for the death of his wife.Joshua Loyd Bruinekool, 45, of Eatonton, was sentenced by Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Judge Stephen A. Bradley to 20 years, with the first 13 years to be served in...
Morgan election office received the EAGLE Award

Morgan election office received the EAGLE Award

Morgan election office receives EAGLE Award

Hannah Barron
Thursday, August 22, 2024
The Morgan County Board of Elections and Registration (BOER) and election director Jennifer Doran recently received the EAGLE Award from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.According to the Secretary of State’s website, the “Georgia Election Administration Golden Leader in Excellence...
Mahmoud Ahmad

Mahmoud Ahmad

Three men arrested for modified drones

T. Michael Stone
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Over the past year, Greene and Morgan County deputies have made several arrests involving drones and contraband that may be headed to area prisons.Three metro Atlanta men were arrested on Aug. 15 after a traffic stop in Greene County when a deputy found drones with anti-collision lights covered...
Lake Oconee News/File Photo

Lake Oconee News/File Photo

Morgan BOC rolls back millage rate to 9.686 mills

Hannah Barron
Thursday, August 15, 2024
The Morgan County Board of Commissioners has set the FY24 millage rate at 9.686 mills, a full rollback from last year’s rate of 9.99 mills.The BOC voted 3-1 to approve the millage rate at its Aug. 6 meeting.District 2 commissioner Blake McCormack cast the dissenting vote.McCormack had asked the...
Lake Oconee News/File Photo

Lake Oconee News/File Photo

Madison establishes millage rates for 2024 tax year

T. Michael Stone
Thursday, August 15, 2024
The Madison City Council set millage rates for the city’s three tax districts on Aug. 2, with all three set at the rollback rate.The city set the Madison district rate at 5.317, which was a decrease of 0.107 from the previous year’s rate, which had been set at 5.424, also a rollback rate.A millage...
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