Garrett wins District 2 BOC seat; SPLOST 10 fails

In an example of the phrase “every vote counts,” Putnam County’s District 2 county commission race was carried by Democrat challenger Richard Garrett by a margin of 1,087 to 1,069 for incumbent Republican commissioner Daniel Brown.The renewal of the county’s SPLOST and the bond measure to borrow...

Putnam BOC candidates face voters in lively Q&A

Incumbent Republican Putnam County District 2 Commissioner Daniel Brown and Democratic challenger Richard Garrett faced approximately two dozen engaged voters last Thursday from the stage at the decommissioned Butler-Baker school in Eatonton.Both candidates provided their thoughts and opinions on...

Tax rate increase by Puntam County commissioners seems inevitable

With the Putnam County Board of Commissioners set to finalize its 2023-24 general fund budget a couple of weeks from now, at least one confounding question lingers: with the county’s tax digest up 20 percent, why do extra revenues from that growth not eliminate any need for an additional millage...