Building houses in Statham in big groups will be halted for up to six months.

The Statham City Council will hold a public forum at 7 p.m. March 9 to hear from residents about how to use city property.

The Statham City Council proposes to change its work session date, providing more time between meetings, but it delayed a vote on the idea to February.

Sanctity of Human Life Concert set

Classroom teachers in Barrow County may get $1,000 on the local supplement for the fiscal year 2021.

The Statham City Council unanimously eliminated the position of city administrator and hired a new police chief at a called meeting Friday night, Jan. 3.

A Winder man was arrested recently for adult prostitution solicitation as part of a sting operation by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Support group for dementia caregivers

“How do we make that work?”

The Winder Downtown Development Authority board, during its Thursday, Dec. 19 meeting, approved the sale of $7.3 million in bonds to facilitate the construction of a new Division of Family and Children Services building, which the authority will own after 15 years.

Local blood drives coming up

The Barrow County Chamber of Commerce will likely continue to occupy the old train depot building on Porter Street for the foreseeable future.

A “freeze” on spending may be coming in Statham. The incoming new mayor and an incoming city council member favor some kind of spending halt until the budget is reviewed.

The Statham City Council approved a new acting police chief Tuesday, Dec. 17, but it took four closed sessions over three meetings.

Annual Live Nativity set in Bethlehem

Georgia Farm Bureau (GFB) recognized the best of the organization’s volunteers and county chapters during its 82nd annual convention on Jekyll Island. The state award winners were honored for the programs they completed this past year to promote agriculture.

Barrow County will offer an incentive payment to its most experienced emergency services employees — aimed at retaining them and attempting to mitigate what county leaders have described as a crisis in the department’s staffing levels.

Winder Healthcare Christmas store accepting donations

The 71st annual Winder Christmas Parade will be held Saturday, Dec. 14.

In just 24 hours, the Boys and Girls Club of Winder-Barrow County exceeded its Giving Tuesday fundraising goal, raising more than $2,000 to “support its mission to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as responsible, caring, …

During its monthly meeting Monday, Dec. 2, the Bethlehem Town Council denied an annexation and rezoning request that would have allowed for the building of a residential subdivision.

The Barrow County School System had three schools recognized as top performing Title I schools by the Georgia Department of Education recently.

The Winder City Council, during its Tuesday, Dec. 3 meeting, approved raising the city’s wastewater rates for the remainder of its fiscal year as it attempts to close an operating deficit in the city’s sewer fund.

Barrow County Emergency Services is “facing a crisis” in its staffing levels, according to its chief, and the department has requested that the county board of commissioners approve a retention incentive payment for nearly three dozen of its employees.

Winder Healthcare Christmas store accepting donations

The Winder City Council approved annexation and rezoning requests Tuesday, Dec. 3, that will allow for the development of an apartment complex, which advocates for the project say will provide much-needed workforce housing inside the city.

Barrow County students will start school in early August for the next two years and have the breaks to which they have become accustomed. In addition, traffic around schools should slow down a bit or end up with speeding tickets.

The Statham police chief, Allan Johnston, resigned his position Sunday, Dec. 1.

Braselton leaders will hold a hearing in December on a development request previously rejected by the town council.

The City of Auburn plans to use funding from the state to widen and resurface Heritage Way, the entrance to the Heritage Park neighborhood.

A wedding venue company based in Texas and Oklahoma plans to purchase property in Winder and build “one of the most desirable wedding/reception venues in the entire state of Georgia,” according to its application to Barrow County planning staff.

The Boys and Girls Club of Winder-Barrow County will celebrate “Giving Tuesday,” the largest global giving day of the year, on Dec. 3.

Five authors to sign books at book store

Barrow County and the City of Winder have yet to resolve two outstanding service-delivery issues, and a court-ordered mediation session earlier this month did not yield any agreements, leaving both parties uncertain about when the issue will be put to rest and when an updated service-deliver…

The City of Winder is eyeing an increase to its wastewater rates for the remainder of the current fiscal year and additional increases over the coming fiscal years as it attempts to chip away at an operating deficit in its sewer fund.

Georgia voters will have plenty to sort out during 2020 as both of our U.S. Senate seats will be on the ballot.

The Barrow County School System has had its most difficult year recently in seeking bus drivers, and it will remain short until training is completed for a new group of drivers.

Students in Barrow County will continue to start school near the beginning of August for the next two years if the Barrow Board of Education accepts the recommendation made Tuesday, Nov. 19, at its work session.

The Barrow County School System will probably have traffic studies done at each school and speed enforcement cameras placed at those schools that have a large number of speeders.