Morgan BOC considers $1.1M in personnel requests

The Morgan County Board of Commissioners received roughly $1.1 million in budget requests for new employee positions during a FY26 budget work session held April 22.The budget requests account for 14 positions across county departments, including an administrative training captain for Morgan County...

$1.1M in pay raises approved for county employees

A room full of county employees applauded the Morgan County Board of Commissioners last Tuesday after the board unanimously approved $1.1 million in pay raises.The raises came after new Sheriff Tyler Hooks asked the board on Feb. 4 to implement a pay scale recommended in a study last year for...

Morgan BOC gets update on Rivian

During its Aug. 6 meeting, the Morgan County Board of Commissioners received an update about Rivian’s Georgia plant at Stanton Springs North.District 3 commissioner Ben Riden provided the update after he went on a site tour with the Joint Development Authority of Jasper, Morgan, Newton & Walton...

Harris collapses at Tuesday's Morgan BOC meeting

According to Morgan County Board of Commissioners Chairman Ben Riden, District 1 representative Donald B. Harris “collapsed” during Tuesday night’s meeting. “It happened about two-thirds of the way through the meeting,” Riden said on Wednesday. “I didn’t see it occur, but it happened so fast.