The state of New York, led by a powerful coalition of local publishers, has just approved game-changing legislation in the fight to preserve local news outlets and community journalism. By including a $90 million payroll tax credit for hiring and retaining local journalists in the state’s 2025 budget, New York has become the nation’s first to take such a major step to protect this vital industry.

Briarpatch Farm in Putnam County recently announced it has partnered with Central Ohio’s Sakura Wagyu Farms to begin offering Wagyu beef along with its traditional Black Angus beef to Lake Country customers.

Serving children beginning at Kindergarten, ATLAS camp is a one of a kind summer experience for all campers, but what makes ATLAS camp special is the counselors. Summer camp is a training ground. Built for the development and steady deployment of Christ-centered leaders into our community, the training of these high school counselors instills the crucial character qualities, work ethic, and grit each young man and woman needs to be successful in life.

Last Thursday, two veterans of the 2023 Flannery O’Connor Summer Institute at Georgia College gave a Zoom presentation about Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville. The presenters were Ashley Massey and Timothy R.

Grease Monkey, a locally owned automobile service, recently opened its doors at 101 Walmart Dr. in Eatonton.

Monday night, Greensboro City Council is expected to hire Autron Hayes as its new city manager. Hayes has been the city manager of Sylvester, a city of about 6,100 people in southwest Georgia. He will be paid $105,000 annually.

A car filled with seven people crashed into a tree recently and miraculously no one was injured, Eatonton Police Chief Howell Cardwell said. The vehicle, driven by Damya Williams of Eatonton, was traveling south at a high rate of speed on Hogan Industrial Boulevard May 5, ran through the stop sign at the intersection of Industrial Boulevard and into the woods where it hit a tree.

A man wearing a mop on his head broke into a store during the night and stole cash from the cash register, authorities say. Because he was successful, the man reportedly returned to the same store several days later but succeeded in stealing only a Dr. Pepper.

As the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) project to widen SR 44 in Putnam and Greene counties continues to evolve, a new wrinkle emerged during a public information meeting held at the Putnam County Administration Building May 7. In the process of drawing up plans to transform SR 44 into a two-lane highway, designers didn’t factor in the boat house on the southbound side of SR 44 used by the Greene County emergency management agencies.

Arrest reports from the May 9, 2024, edition of the Lake Oconee News.