by JMO Staff | Jul 29, 2024 | Floating Boats
A McIntosh County judge has ruled that local voters will get to decide whether or not to allow new, much larger houses to be built on Sapelo Island, some 60 miles south of Savannah. The McIntosh County Commission in September approved the zoning change, but concerned...
by JMO Staff | Jul 26, 2024 | Floating Boats
Cobb Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill on Thursday ruled that the Cobb Commission maps used in recent primaries are unconstitutional – and must be thrown out, and their elections redone next year. The saga began in 2022 when the Democrat-majority Cobb Commission...
by JMO Staff | Jul 25, 2024 | Floating Boats
Dozens of Democratic Party members of the U.S. House and Senate yesterday boycotted the speech before a joint session of Congress by Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel– this country’s top ally in the Mideast. Of all the members of...
by JMO Staff | Jul 24, 2024 | Floating Boats
The Athens-Clarke County Courthouse building in downtown has been shut down for a full week thanks to an unusual issue – a bedbug infestation. The historic downtown Athens building, which houses the offices of the sheriff, tax commissioner, district attorney...
by JMO Staff | Jul 23, 2024 | Floating Boats
Amidst the political turmoil of President Joe Biden announcing he will not seek re-election on Sunday is the question of whether his successor atop the ticket – likely Vice President Kamala Harris – will be able to get on ballots in November. Different...
by JMO Staff | Jul 22, 2024 | Floating Boats
Officials from the city of College Park south of Atlanta are scrambling to figure out how some 1,000 pages of confidential city documents were dumped in a recycling bin near City Hall. The documents featured private financial information of both employees and...
