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NEW COUNTY BRIDGES IN DOT PLAN
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 20:48.By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer
Don’t worry about working out your detour routes just yet.
But be aware that the Georgia Department of Transportation has earmarked four Morgan County bridges for replacement in its long-term plan.
Currently, that means to look for those projects to happen over the next 5 to 7 years.
City has no plans for lay-offs
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 20:48.By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer
In a time of economic free-fall, you can never say “never.” But the City of Madison can say that it has no plans to lay off employees at this time, despite the regular news of other Georgia cities having to do just that.
One wreck, three dead on I–20
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 21:46.Slick tires are to blame, officers say
Jolley named hospital’s CEO
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 21:45.
By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer
The Morgan Memorial Hospital CEO search committee fielded nearly two dozen applications, but in the end it was interim CEO Brandon Jolley, at the hospital since late 2008, who received the offer of a 2-year contract.
March comes in with a lion’s roar
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 21:41.
By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer
March came in like the proverbial lion, with thunder, snow, wind advisories and freezing temperatures the order of the day on Sunday, March 1.
Snow began falling thick and fast just after noon, and quickly slicked the streets and furred the trees.
“HALLOWEEN” IN MADISON
Submitted by editor on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 21:39.
PHOTO BY A. BELLEBUONO
CONSTRUCTING A SCENE Workers on the set of “Halloween 2” prepare to hang the “Uncle Meat’s Java Hole” sign over Dog Ear Books Thursday afternoon. The transformation of the Madison Markets’ storefronts was just one of the many Hollywood changes in Madison during the past week.