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Senator Jones Honors Baldwin County Fire Department

Submitted by Senate Press on Tuesday, February 12th, 4:55 pm

Senator Burt Jones welcomed members of the Baldwin County Fire Department to celebrate Firefighters Day at the Capitol last week.

“It was my privilege to meet with the Baldwin Firefighters to thank them for their service to District 25,” said Sen. Jones. “The courage they display when rushing to the scene while everyone is fleeing is not only commendable but highly admirable. I am thankful for these men and women who exemplify a great commitment to the public safety of all Georgians.”

Sen. Jones was joined by (from left to right) Battalion Chief Tony Waller, Chief Troy Reynolds, Sen. Jones, Deputy Chief of Administration Steve Somers, Battalion Chief Richard Gordon, Firefighter Billy Benzur, Captain Lewis Osborne, Firefighter Hank Griffith, Battalion Chief Young and in the lower front, Deputy Chief Gilbert French.

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Andalusia Farm Blog: Whispers of Faith

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Friday, February 8th, 2013, 2:54pm

Read Andalusia Farm's blog on how faith "whispers" rather than "shouts" within modern literature, compared literature in Flannery O'Connor's time period.

In her essay "The Fiction Writer and his Country," Flannery O'Connor describes how she approaches writing to an increasingly secular audience: “The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience... Read More

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Baldwin County Commissioners Set to Meet Tuesday

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, 11:53am

Baldwin County Commissioners Set to Meet Tuesday

The next Baldwin County Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting is set for Tuesday, February 5 at 6 p.m.

That's in the Commission Chambers in Suite 319.

Agenda:

Invocation
Pledge of Allegiance
Call to Order
Approval of Minutes
--Minutes of January 23, 2013 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting
--Minutes of January 31, 2013 Work Session
Administrative/Fical Matters
1. Bids for 2 million gallon ground storage tank/pump station on Hopewell Church Road--Engineer Tim Ingram
2. Task order for airport runway project-- County Manager/Doug Hawkins
3. Rural fire defense cooperative lease agreement and memorandum of understanding-- County Manager
4. Survey request by Bobbie Herring Property on Crawford Rd.--County Manager
Adjournment
Public Comment Period for Non-Agenda items
Adjournment

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Andalusia Farm to Host February Lectures

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Friday, February 1st, 2013, 12:00pm

Andalusia Farm to Host February Lectures

Andalusia farm, the Milledgeville farmhouse where Flannery O'Connor lived and wrote, hosts February lectures on Sundays from 3-5 p.m.

Bruce Gentry kicks off the lecture series with a lecture entitled "The Influence of Carson McCullers and Erskine Caldwell on Flannery O'Connor." Gentry is the editor of the Flannery O'Connor Review at Georgia College and Chair of the Foundation's Scholars Council, according to the Andalusia website.

That's on Sunday, February 3, from 3-5 p.m.

The February Lecture Series is listed on Trailfest 2013 as part of the Southern Literary Trail.

View the full lecture series schedule at Andalusia.

View the Southern Literary Trail website.

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Georgia College Department of Public Safety Awarded $10K Grant

Submitted by GCSU on Tuesday, January 29th, 4:10 pm

The Georgia College Department of Public Safety received a partnership grant of $10,000 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS).

The incentive grant, which will last through Sept. 2013, is designed for smaller law enforcement agencies that have partnered with GOHS and excelled in participating in highway safety initiatives as well as making their communities safe during the previous year... Read More

Andalusia Farm Blog: A Cool College Visits

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Monday, January 28th, 2013, 10:00am

Andalusia Farm Blog: A Cool College Visits

Every year or so around this time a group of students from Centre College visits Andalusia. And I must say I look forward to their visit more than just about any other group that comes out here. Tuesday morning was no exception as the big blue bus with the Kentucky thoroughbred painted on the side rumbled up the driveway. ... Read More

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Baldwin County Jobless Rate Released

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer

Thursday, January 24th, 2013, 4:56pm

The jobless rate for Baldwin County in December 2012 was 12 percent.

Baldwin was one of 67 Georgia counties that had a jobless rate of 10 percent or greater.

The jobless rate in December 2012 was also up for metro Macon.

According to a state news release, unemployment rose to 9.2 percent from November's 8.7 percent rate, but it was down from December 2011 when the rate was 9.5 percent.

Officials claim the rise comes from a combination of factors, including a "slight increase" in new layoffs and a reduction in the area work force.

The uptick reflects a similar statewide trend. However, the jobless rate across Georgia only rose one-tenth of percentage point while metro Macon's rate jumped five-tenths of a percentage point.

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