The Eatonton Pilot Club hosted its 61st Annual Dairy Festival after COVID caused an abrupt pause to the annual festivities. “My fellow commissioners and I would like to welcome you to the reemergence of the Dairy Festival from the pandemic,” said Jeff Wooten, Putnam County Commissioner of District 4, to the crowd.

Lake Country voters return to the polls for the party primary runoffs, which begin next week (June 13-17) for early voting at the county administration building and end with in-person voting at the various precincts on Tuesday, June 21.

The 30th Annual Putnam County Classic, hosted by the Manley family, was in full effect this summer. The event took place from June 3-6 at the Manley Arena in Putnam County.

Five years after the slayings of two Georgia Department of Corrections officers, the death penalty trial of Ricky Dubose began Wednesday, June 1, in Putnam County Superior Court After two full days of testimony, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Alison T. Burleson announced on Friday, June 3, that the trial would be recessed for five days.