Lee County News

Monday night's fundraiser at the Oakland Lodge for state House Republican Ed Rynders was not your typical down-home South Georgia get-together. Not when Rynders spent most of the day of the event turning down requests from media outlets to attend the meet-and-greet. Not when the state's largest newspaper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was ...

But some women aren't waiting to find out, arming themselves to use deadly force if necessary.

Lee County High School journalism and English teacher Coni Grebel was named Lee County School System's Teacher of the Year.

Lee County officials were given updates on school, road, library and Leesburg's waste-water treatment plant projects during the county's monthly directors meeting Thursday morning.

Dougherty County Commission Chairman Jeff Sinyard, Mayor Willie Adams and City Manager Alfred Lott listen as Fire Chief James Carswell announces the countywide ISO rating has gone down to a level 2 rating.

As his four fellow commissioners raised their hands in unaninous approval of the motion to OK a bid calling for the construction of a fire/EMS station in the north Lee County Smithville community, Lee Commission Chair Ed Duffy couldn't contain himself.

The Census Count Committee in Lee County held a meeting Monday to encourage church pastors to reach out to congregations and remind them of the importance of being counted.

For eight years, talk about the construction of a new fire/EMS station near the north Lee County community of Smithville has been just that: talk.

You can even hear the birds sing. But if you listen carefully you can hear another song.

Success to a Lee County leader means population growth with commercial interests following close behind.

The state plans to build a short bypass around Leesburg. Supporters say it will relieve traffic congestion and improve traffic safety.

Leesburg Police arrested the man after he showed up at McDonald's over the weekend.

The Southwest Georgia Therapeutic Riding Center hosted its annual Derby Day fundraiser Friday night at Hunny Pot Stables in Lee County.

The Food Bank of Southwest Georgia parked their Manna Food Distribution truck loaded with 360 boxes of food at Leesburg United Methodist Church.

Fifteen cameras keep an eye on activity downtown 24-hours a day, but unless a major event is going one, no one watches the monitors, and money of course is the top reason.

The county asked for volunteers and donors. A Lee County contractor heard that plea and will hold a unique reverse raffle to raise money to help finish the building.

Lee County went country Tuesday night. A hometown music star sang his heart out for local fans who won the musical treat fair and square for simply being good fans.

Mrs. Alethia Humphreys Brown passed away on September 24, 2009 at Albany Healthcare, in the company of her loving family.

Highway 19 is a busy and dangerous stretch of highway. But it's all that traffic that makes southern Lee County prime real estate for businesses.

Traffic was backed up on U.S. 19 after a man struck by a pickup truck. "The gentleman coming across from the other side of the street, the east side of the street on 19, darted out into traffic," said Lee County Sheriff Reggie Rachals.