Barrow County’s population has increased by more than 15,000 people over the last decade, and more people are expected to move to the county in the coming years, as the sprawl from Gwinnett County and metro Atlanta continues and more than 2,400 planned dwellings are currently either under co…

Improvements and maintenance along Pleasant Hill Church Road in Winder, remediation of several dirt roads around Barrow County and additional paving at Victor Lord Park will be paid for through more than $1.8 million in federal coronavirus relief money that was allocated to the county.

The City of Statham has settled a federal lawsuit over pay with former police officer John Wood.

Veterans Day is Wednesday, Nov. 11, and the Winder-based Sunbury Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be hosting an event to recognize local veterans on Saturday, Nov. 14.

The American Red Cross will hold a blood donation drive from 2:30-7 p.m. Nov. 30 at Bethlehem First United Methodist Church, 709 Christmas Ave.

Bryan W. Bell won Tuesday’s special election for the open Bethlehem Town Council seat, topping two other candidates with 41.5 percent of the vote (114 total votes) in the only locally-contested race strictly within Barrow County, according to final totals from the county elections office.

The Barrow County School System is planning repairs and renovations to the Center for Innovative Teaching on West Midland Avenue and its transportation on building on Hal Jackson Road in Winder, with the goal of starting the work next summer.

The Barrow County MLK Committee has announced that it will not hold its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in January due to coronavirus concerns.

First Christian Church, 275 North 5th Ave., Winder, will host an International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day event from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 21.

Contrary to apparent recent rumors, the Barrow County School System is not actively planning to move to online-only instruction between Thanksgiving and Christmas, though that could be an option if the local coronavirus situation deteriorates to levels that might trigger school closures, sup…

The American Red Cross will hold a blood donation drive from noon to 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at Winder First United Methodist Church, 280 North Broad St.

Construction on the new walking and biking trail that will connect Fort Yargo State Park with near downtown Winder is set to begin soon after the city council awarded a contract Tuesday, Oct. 27, but the vote didn’t come without some controversy.

Barrow County will be adding some new offices to the county judicial courthouse on Barrow Park Drive in Winder over the next month as it gets ready to launch a part-time state court beginning in January.

The City of Statham will host a "Trick or Treat on Broad Street" Halloween event downtown from 5-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. 

With autumn well underway, the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Northeast Health District, which serves 10 counties, including Barrow, is providing guidance for reducing the risk of COVID-19 during fall festivities, including Halloween events.

Patients in Winder will have more access to same-day and next-day appointments for care at a new family medicine practice.

The Barrow County School System reported Thursday, Oct. 22, that seven students tested positive for COVID-19 between Oct. 15-21 — the highest number for students since the district began releasing weekly totals last month — while the overall number of students impacted by COVID-19 decreased …

A requested rezoning that would allow for large subdivision of more than 300 single-family homes between State Route 316 and Atlanta Highway in Statham did not draw a recommendation from the Barrow County Planning Commission last week and will now head to the county board of commissioners ne…

The City of Auburn will seek state funding for a future biking and walking trail system that city officials hope can also make the city an “agri-tourism destination.”

The Barrow County School System continued to have newly-confirmed COVID-19 infections and related quarantines, but did see a drop in the number of impacted students and employees from the previous two weeks, according to the latest weekly data released by district officials Thursday, Oct. 15.

A local developer’s plans to build a large mixed-use, high-density residential development in Hoschton were rejected by the Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Oct. 13, following a contentious public hearing.

Barrow County is planning to eventually expand the judicial courthouse and detention center off Barrow Park Drive in Winder in the coming years, and county officials are eyeing future special-purpose local-option sales tax monies as the funding source for the future multi-million-dollar project.

The Barrow County School System received a record $1.69 million in education local-option sales tax (ELOST) revenue last month, thanks to a nearly half-million-dollar boost from the state as the result of a three-year audit that discovered local governments were not receiving all of the sale…

The Barrow County School System on Thursday, Oct. 8, reported another sharp weekly increase in coronavirus-related quarantines for the past week, while the number of newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases also went up.

The American Red Cross has the following upcoming blood drives in Barrow County:

A local developer’s plan to build 128 apartment units off West Candler Street across from Rose Hill Cemetery in Winder has been met with strong opposition from nearby residents — less than two years after the property was rezoned to allow for construction of a senior housing development.

More than 150 Barrow County School System students were sent home from or kept out of school from Sept. 24-30 due to coronavirus concerns, and more than half of those were at Yargo Elementary School, according to the district’s latest weekly COVID-19 update released Thursday, Oct. 1.

Barrow County Department of Family and Children Services has now relocated to its new 24,000-square-foot building at 63 Lays Dr. in Winder, near the Social Security Administration building off East Broad Street.

A “Mini-Walk to Defeat ALS” event will be held in Statham on Saturday, Oct. 17.

The Barrow County School System’s average SAT scores at both Winder-Barrow and Apalachee high schools increased for the 2019-20 school year, while the system remained a little below the statewide averages for Georgia, according to numbers released recently by the Georgia Department of Education.

The Barrow County School System will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the district’s third high school, Barrow Arts and Sciences Academy on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

The Barrow County Food Pantry, in partnership with the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, will host its monthly food distribution day at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 (rain or shine) at Holly Hill Mall, across from Hill's Ace Hardware, 186 West Athens St., Winder.

The Georgia Department of Transportation recently announced the awarding of a contract for the construction of the planned roundabout on State Route 211 at Old Hog Mountain Road in Barrow County.

As many as 27 students at Bear Creek Middle School in Statham were sent home from or kept out of school due to coronavirus concerns after they were reported to have either a positive test for or direct exposure to COVID-19 on Sept. 22, according to the latest numbers released Thursday, Sept.…

The following Red Cross blood donation drives are planned in Barrow County:

The Come Alive Ministries (CAM) Pregnancy Care Center is participating in the National Life Chain on Sunday, Oct. 4, from 2-3 p.m. The Life Chain will be held along May Street in Winder, starting at McDonald’s and extending past the old Pizza Hut.