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Mayor Hellenga honored the local American Legion post with a city proclamation.
The Downtown Development Authority's leadership posts are up for appointment, a routine step in setting who runs the board overseeing downtown projects.
The authority's March 19 agenda lists a proposal to consider going into executive session, but the record does not show what was discussed or decided.
The board's agenda includes staffing changes that affect who works in county schools.
The authority's March 2026 agenda lists a closed-door executive session, with no public record yet of the topic or any action taken.
The Franklin County Industrial Building Authority board is set to take up who will serve as its treasurer.
The board picked its representatives to the Georgia School Boards Association for 2026.
The county's tax assessors board flagged a possible personnel discussion that, if held, would happen out of public view.
Building inspections in Alto will continue under a fill-in inspector after the town's building inspector stepped down for health reasons.
The council placed a closed-door personnel discussion on its agenda, a step that precedes any public vote on the matter.
A resident asked the town council why complaint forms she submitted for code enforcement have not been resolved.
The council moved to hold a special session to advance two ordinances and to push back its regular April meeting…
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