MORE LOCAL NEWS FOR YOU — SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
More local news for you this Saturday, September twenty-sixth.
Thomas County Central handed Lee County its first football loss of the season Friday night, winning forty-nine to twenty-six at Trojan Field in Leesburg. Yellow Jackets quarterback Aidan McPherson accounted for all seven Thomas County Central touchdowns and three hundred sixty-one yards of offense. Lee County falls to four and one. Thomas County Central is now five and oh, with twenty straight wins.
Lee County softball is a step closer to the Region Two, Six-A title. The Lady Trojans swept a Thursday doubleheader at Coffee, winning five to nothing and six to four. Lee County is now twenty-three and two overall and fourteen and one in region play. Veterans still has a mathematical path to the title, with a makeup doubleheader against Lee County scheduled for October sixth.
Lee County’s proposed hospital is moving forward, but its financing is not final. The Albany Herald reports county commissioners approved a plan for county payments toward roughly thirty million dollars in hospital construction borrowing. Annual payments are estimated at about two million dollars, with final costs and terms still to be determined. The broader financing plan also requires further approvals.
In Moultrie, two men have now been arrested in the investigation of unauthorized cameras found at Withers Auditorium. The Colquitt County School District says the cameras were discovered around the stage, and investigators are still working to determine what was recorded. The district says no cameras were found inside bathrooms or dressing rooms. The allegations remain under investigation.
Dawson residents’ complaints about potholes now come amid new scrutiny of the city’s finances. Mayor Robert Aaron told WALB the city is struggling to stay afloat. Audits for three fiscal years remain unfinished, and the city says that has affected its ability to seek road-repair grants. A budget hearing scheduled for Thursday was canceled; the city has scheduled an October eighth vote on the budget.
The Sumter County sheriff has released new details about two people found dead outside a home near Highway One-Eighteen in the Leslie area. The sheriff says they were an eighty-eight-year-old woman and her sixty-seven-year-old son. Investigators believe the son may have collapsed while mowing and his mother may have gone out to help. Authorities report no signs of foul play; autopsies are underway to determine the causes of death.
Higher diesel costs are also squeezing food deliveries into Southwest Georgia. Feeding the Valley tells WALB its fourteen-truck fleet is costing thousands of dollars more per month to fuel. Some trucks make the roughly ninety-mile trip to Albany two or three times a week. The food bank is adjusting routes and seeking help with the added expense.
In this week’s restaurant inspection report, La Cocina Two-Go in Albany received a score of eighty-five. Inspectors cited three food-storage and temperature violations. WALB reports all three were corrected while the inspector was on site.
And Worth County softball has clinched the Region One, Three-A championship in striking fashion. The Lady Rams beat Crisp County six to nothing Tuesday and finished eight region games without allowing a run. They have outscored region opponents one hundred twenty-one to nothing. Freshman Austyn Kate Rucker struck out fourteen in the clinching win.
