Andersonville
Andersonville, GA · Municipal
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Seminole County and Terrell County meet Friday with playoff stakes in Week 12
DAWSON, Ga. (WALB) — As of now, Seminole County holds the final postseason spot at No. 32 and plays at Terrell County on Friday night in Dawson. Thirty-two teams make the postseason, and Terrell County is outside the field. Seminole County holds on to final spot. Seminole County has...
Cordele Dispatch
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Albany moves forward with underground cable upgrades to improve power reliability
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — Albany city commissioners approved a $388,800 contract to replace aging underground power lines across the city, outsourcing the labor to improve infrastructure and prevent prolonged outages. The contract allows a company based in Buford, Ga. to install new cables and protective piping to help prevent...
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I-75/I-16 Traffic Shifts in Macon: November 6–7, 2026
The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) reports that contractors will continue construction activities this week as part of the I-75/I-16 Interchange Improvement Project in Macon-Bibb County. Weather and on-site conditions permitting, motorists should expect two overnight traffic shifts beginning Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7, 2026. Friday, November...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms flips 6 Republican-leaning precincts in Columbus
Twelve Muscogee County voting precincts Gov. Brian Kemp won in his 2022 race against Stacey Abrams swung 10.7 points toward Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms in Tuesday’s election, according to a report by the government relations and public affairs firm Ohio River South . The shift in these Republican-leaning precincts began in 2022 and continued in 2024, Karl Douglass, a partner at Ohio River South, told the Ledger-Enquirer. But he said there was a noticeable uptick in 2026. “Those 12 precincts that Kemp won that are in north Columbus and midtown, Keisha Lance Bottoms won six of them outright,” Douglass said. “And in every one of them, she gained ground against both the (Kamala) Harris share of the vote and the Abrams share of the vote in ‘24 and ‘22, respectively.” The report said the Democratic share of the vote in those precincts rose from 39.6% to 50.3%. In Muscogee County, already a solid Democratic stronghold, the number of voters who chose the Democratic nominee in the governor’s race increased by 7.1 percentage points from four years ago. How Bottoms outperformed in Republican-leaning precincts Bottoms, the first Black woman elected governor in the United States, won Muscogee County by 20,676 votes,
WALB 10
Albany awarded $7.3M to improve safety at intersections with history of deadly and serious crashes, city says
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — The city of Albany has received more than $7.3 million in federal funding to improve safety at two intersections that have been the site of multiple serious and deadly crashes. The city announced it has been awarded a total of $7,368,640 from the U.S. Department...
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Macon-Bibb OKs $7M for Audi deal, preps convention site, calls for OLOST vote
The Macon-Bibb County Commission agreed to pitch-in $7 million for its portion of the Mid-Georgia Gateway Joint Development Authority’s deal for the Peach County megasite that lured a $4 billion Audi of America manufacturing plant. The morning after Tuesday’s commission meetings, Mayor Lester Miller was priming the Chamber of...