The Augusta Commission held its first and only public hearing Tuesday on the 2026 budget, which currently includes a two-mill tax increase and across-the-board cuts to services and outside groups.
Food insecurity took center stage at Tuesday’s Augusta Commission meeting, where Golden Harvest Food Bank leaders described the local fallout from the federal cutoff of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, known as SNAP.
The one in eight Georgians who rely on the government for food may have to wait for weeks to get their spending allotment on the cards they use to buy groceries.
Retired Army sergeant major Lonnie Wimberly cruised to victory Tuesday in the District 4 Augusta Commission special election.
Columbia County is proposing a lowering of the millage rate for fiscal year 2023-24.
The Bell Auditorium renovations have begun, as the Coliseum Authority looks ahead to the C-SPLOST vote in November.
Rep. Rick Allen speaks at Augusta’s National Day of Prayer breakfast.
Local officials need the public to weigh in on long-term and annual public planning. Opportunities to do that start Thursday.
Commissioners approve rezoning request.
Following a nearly hour-long discussion, the Columbia County Board of Commissioners approved, with conditions, the rezoning request for Wortham Lane.
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