Appalachian Trail Community Committee Holds Annual Meeting Officers Elected

The Franklin Appalachian Trail Community Committee met for their annual meeting at The Lazy Hiker due to their space being double booked by the Town of Franklin. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Chairperson..........Rob Gasbarro Vice Chairperson...Matt Bateman Sec/Treasurer.......Kristina Moe MEDIA ROLL CALL (media outlets present for the meeting) Macon Media (me) Here is the video of the meeting: Agenda AT Community Committee MeetingAnnual...

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Franklin TDA June 2015 Meeting and Board "Retreat"

Update: The video has been added. Meeting in Brief Matt Bateman resigned from the board, PRiemiere Marketing made their annual budget presentation to the board. Doug Morton of The Taste of Scotland Festival spoke to the board, wanting additional funds. He said an article in a local paper stating the festival had made a profit of $1,000 last year had cost them donations this year. After a lengthy conversation with Morton, the board denied...

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Macon County Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Arrests at South Macon Elementary School

Macon County Sheriff Robbie Holland held a press conference to share information with the media about the arrest of Adam Conley and Kathryn Jetter at South Macon School. Here is the full audio of the press conference: Here is full video of the press conference: Here are some photos from the press conference: [Link to Flickr Album] Created with flickr slidesh...

Macon County Sheriff Officers Close Down South Macon School to Search for Weapons

Regarding the "missing" post from this morning. Facebook got back to me and said that the school deleted their post, which I had shared. Since I shared their post, my post disappeared when theirs did. A couple of people confirmed this when they messaged me and said they had shared the original post by the school, too and theirs had also went missing. So, there is no conspiracy to delete posts on developing public safety situations. YAAY!!!! So, instead of directly sharing posts by the school and other local government pages, I plan on copying...

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Franklin Town Board June 2015 Meeting

**update 12:18 am June 2nd** Here is the video of the meeting. Supporting documents are embedded below. The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be meeting tonight for their regular June 2015 meeting. Among the items on the agenda is a public hearing and vote on the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 budget for the Town of Franklin. You can see a copy of the proposed budget and a video of the complete work session held by the town board to review the budget...

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