Sept. 26, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Jill Nolin reports, a hurricane warning has been issued as far inland as Macon as Hurricane Helene threatens the entire state of Georgia, prompting Gov. Brian Kemp to issue a state of emergency for all 159 counties. The rest of Georgia is under a tropical storm warning, with areas of north Georgia facing a high risk of flooding and even a threat of mudslides in some of the state’s mountainous areas.
Sept. 26, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Candice Dyer reports, only 13, the boy had been shuffled among more than 40 residential placements, to the point where he was denied admission in other programs. He was living alone in a hotel when the Evolve program of the Murphy-Harpst Children’s Center, which has locations to house underserved youth in Conyers and Augusta, took him in for six months.
Sept. 26, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Michael E. Kanell reports that Shaw Industries said Wednesday that it will close a 288-worker plant in Dalton as part of plans to consolidate some of its manufacturing of the materials that go into carpeting. By late November, the Dalton-based company will have shut down work at Plant 6 in Dalton, a factory that makes residential fiber.
Sept. 26, 2024 Georgia.gov
Staff reports, Gov. Kemp, on Wednesday, announced that Shinsung Petrochemical (Shinsung), an automotive supplier, will invest $11.2 million in a new manufacturing facility in Toombs County, creating more than 30 new jobs. Established in 1974, Shinsung specializes in products like automotive sealant.
Sept. 26, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Trevor Williams reports, when viewed in the context of 171 million visitors who crossed into the state this year, Georgia’s visitation from international tourists may look minuscule. But the 1.2 million foreign visitors had an outsize influence, spending $1.47 billion to help propel a record year for overall visitation and economic impact in the state.
Sept. 26, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Latrice Williams reports that residents in Bryan County are getting more relief as State Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson announced Wednesday that residents in the county may be eligible for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance to compensate for income lost due to Tropical Storm Debby. According to a press release, residents in Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Long and Screven are also eligible to apply for aid.
Sept. 26, 2024 The Current
Mary Landers reports, a judge on Wednesday ordered a stop to an ongoing referendum to decide the fate of new zoning in Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock. The order requires the McIntosh County Board of Elections to immediately ” … cease and desist opening and staffing the polls for early voting and from opening and staffing the polling places for the Oct. 1 referendum.”
Sept. 26, 2024 Cherokee Tribune
Ethan Johnson reports, a draft master plan for Canton’s downtown area is available online, and city leaders are expected to continue discussions about the plan next month. The Canton Downtown Development Authority began discussing the draft plan at their Sept. 11 meeting, and the Canton City Council discussed it Sept. 12.
Sept. 26, 2024 The Brunswick News
Taylor Cooper reports, City Hall wants residents to attend the City Commission’s meeting next week to learn and ask questions about a $7 million housing grant it plans to apply for later this year. Called the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, shorted to PRO Housing, grant, it’s a relatively new grant offered by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department. It can provide upward of $7 million to local governments to “identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation.”
Sept. 26, 2024 GPB
Grant Blankenship reports, a yearslong dispute between two federally recognized tribes — the Muscogee Nation from Oklahoma and Poarch Band of Creek Indians from Alabama — over the future of the remains of people from which both tribes claim descent was heard in the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
Sept. 26, 2024 State Affairs
Tammy Joyner reports, many local election offices have begun training thousands of temporary poll workers and other essential staff for the Nov. 5 general election, according to W. Travis Doss III, president of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials. Hundreds more are needed.
Sept. 26, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that creative thinking could help offset the growing impact of solar farms in rural Georgia, a state environmental regulator told a state Senate study committee Wednesday at a hearing in Moultrie. Jim Cooley, director of district operations for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD), outlined a series of alternatives for siting solar farms in locations other than productive farmland.
Sept. 26, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mark Niesse reports that Georgia Democrats went to court Wednesday to try to force Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to seek the removal of three members of the State Election Board, which has recently changed several election rules. The lawsuit asks a Fulton County judge to order Kemp to conduct a hearing on whether three Republican members of the board violated ethics laws.
