Jim Thompson

The U.S. government reportedly paid $128,555,500 to PNK S1, LLC to purchase a 235-acre lot at 1365 East Hightower Trail as an ICE detention center.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly is no longer interested in converting a 1.2-million square-foot warehouse in Social Circle, recently purchased by the federal government, into an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center that had been planned to house as many as 10,000 people awaiting deportation and to employ as many as 2,500 people. The Social Circle facility, at the corner of Social Circle Parkway and East Hightower Trail, was planned to become part of a national network of detention facilities aimed at getting illegal immigrants out of the United States. But according to a statement released Thursday by the city government, Social Circle officials received notice Thursday from U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Jackson), whose 10th District seat includes Social Circle, that DHS “is no longer pursuing an ICE facility within the City of Social Circle.”

City finance director resigns

A rezoning request for a Railroad Street tract that has been in front of the Statham City Council numerous times over the past couple of years

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Prepay and SAVE $99.90 for one year (Renews at $99.90 annually)

The end of balloting in Georgia's June 16 primary runoff elections, which decided a number of state and local races that didn't produce winners in

The Winder City Council on Monday set a general fund budget approaching $24 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Nearly two weeks after voting unanimously to place City Administrator Jonathan Lynn on paid administrative leave while they weighed whether to renew

The Statham City Council is continuing its legislative arm-wrestling with Mayor Debi Krause over the city's fiscal affairs, but the council's June 16 meeting resulted in only modest success for the small town's governing body.