Preston News

The volunteers, clad in yellow T-shirts, helped the students move their personal belongings into housing at the Courtyard apartments at University Avenue and College Drive.

“On Old Andersonville Road, we had about eight to ten trees down across the roadway. Several other roads in Sumter County are blocked, either power lines or trees down across the road. We got road crews coming in as we speak”

The same line of severe weather that caused damage and injuries in Alabama brought strong winds, heavy rainfall, and dangerous lightning into Georgia where several mobile homes were reported destroyed and at ... via WALB-TV Albany

“I think it's going to be in the best interest to approve the merged government”

Voters in Webster County are poised to make a historic decision on Feb. 5 when they decide whether to form Georgia's sixth, and smallest, consolidated government from the existing jurisdictions of Preston, ... via Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Ge...

“This has become so complex it would be very hard to keep county business going if there were no experienced commissioners on the board”

The Jones County Commission will hold a called meeting today at 11 a.m. to discuss creating staggered terms for the commission and to award a bid for a new water line along Henderson Road. via The Macon Telegraph

“There are different approaches at each district”

Marietta City and Decatur City school systems are on track to become among the first districtwide charter school systems in Georgia under a new state law signed in May. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution