Today at 2:30 pm at the State Capitol Georgia Lottery Corp. President and CEO Gretchen Corbin will kick off a 25th anniversary event with special guest Gov. Nathan Deal. Especially celebrated will be 25 years of the lottery-funded HOPE scholarship and pre-kindergarten programs.The $19 billion-plus generated by lottery games since the first ticket was purchased when the late Zell Miller was governor have provided HOPE to over 1.8 million collage students. The revenue has also offered access to lottery-funded pre-k programs for over 1.4 million four-year-olds. The Lottery Corp. broke all revenue records last year, Captain Corbin has the ship sailing in the right direction this year and there’s a lot to celebrate as its boat keeps RISING…
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The small town of Milner (population 1,000) in Lamar County, about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, saw its police chief and all five officers resign due to a a “lack of trust in the city council and mayor.” Chief Lamar Bunn accused Mayor Craig Timmons of placing a tracker on his personal truck as part of an odd saga that led to the resignations. Milner city officials say they’ll likely push to unincorporate, since the police were about the only service the county didn’t provide. The odd circumstances have Milner and its residents SINKING…
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