March 27, 2020
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson on Friday issued a Declaration of Local Emergency to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 spread.
March 26, 2020
Americus Times-Recorder
The called meeting of the City of Americus Mayor and Council will be held via teleconference
March 20, 2020
Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson addressed during a Thursday press conference the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Muscogee County.
March 16, 2020
Columbus city officials said Friday they are finalizing plans to ensure all essential services would continue in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Mayor Skip Henderson announced Friday afternoon that the Columbus Consolidated Government will be temporarily postponing several city events and closing off access to city facilities due to concerns of the spread of COVID-19.
March 13, 2020
Cordele Dispatch
The Vienna City Council met for a work session Monday to discuss a long-time water problem in the city.
February 17, 2020
Marietta Daily Journal
The Marietta City Council voted 6-0 to approve the agency’s plans to knock down the medical offices that have been on the site since 1991 and build a new two-story, 5,158-square-foot building in the same general location as the existing building.
City work crews removed two large Oak trees from the Broadway median in downtown Columbus earlier this week.
February 14, 2020
AMERICUS – Americus Mayor Barry Blount strongly urged the Sumter County Board of Education (BOE) to keep the name of the new high school as Americus-Sumter High School and to not change the name to Sumter County High School. Mayor Blount stated his case to the BOE at its monthly meeting on Monday, February 10.
February 7, 2020
The Columbus Civic Center is still without a permanent director since the firing of Jon Dorman in May 2019, but the city-owned and operated event venue ended the year with positive cash balance for the first time in over a decade.