By Carol A. Gasser Moore | TRINITY, Fla. — September 3, 2025 — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says a 63-year-old Florida man has been arrested in a multi-state cyber-fraud probe tied to an online timeshare scam that cost an elderly Newnan couple more than $1 million over four years. Charles Henry Williams, of…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore LAKELAND, Lanier County, Ga. — The City of Lakeland is inviting residents to apply to serve as the city’s representative on the Miller–Lakeland Library Advisory Board, a volunteer body that advises the Miller–Lakeland Branch of the South Georgia Regional Library (SGRL) system. The board helps ensure the branch’s programs, collections,…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore | LAKELAND, Lanier County, Ga. — The Lanier County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) responded Wednesday to an incident at Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Officials confirmed activity at the refuge but had not released additional details as of press time. Banks Lake sits just west of downtown Lakeland and is…
By Patty Durrand GEORGIA – Across Georgia, families are opening their power bills and wondering how they got so high. For many, monthly electric bills have started to look like car payments—$450, $650, some people are even experiencing $1000 electricity bills from Georgia Power. And that is not by accident. The complexity of utility regulation…
Independent analysis finds lower costs, steadier schedules and similar end-to-end transit times via Georgia’s main container port By Carol A. Gasser Moore | SAVANNAH, Chatham County, Ga. — Shipping cargo bound for metro Atlanta through the Port of Savannah delivers a cheaper and more dependable end-to-end journey than routing the same freight through West Coast…
by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Reporting Highlights Slashed Autism Funding: RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research. Silent on Rollbacks: Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters,…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore | Lanier County News LAKELAND, Lanier County, Ga. — The Flatlanders Too! Arts and Crafts Show returned to the Lanier County Courthouse Square on Saturday, August 30, turning downtown into a strollable marketplace of quilts, stained glass, woodwork, jewelry, and all things handmade. The Labor Day backup date proved unnecessary…
By Carol A. Gasser Moore | Downtown Lakeland has a new spot to pull up a chair. 37 & Main has opened its doors at 37 W Main St, bringing fresh energy to a Main Street storefront and a menu centered on Cajun favorites and classic comfort dishes—the kind of plates made for lingering with…
ANALYSIS… Lanier BOC doubles down on due-diligence failure, makes up a job for Tony Galardo By T.S. Carter | LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – Behind closed doors to avoid public scrutiny, Lanier County commissioners this week created a ‘make-work’ job for Anthony “Tony” Galardo after his recent firing by U.S. Homeland Security for concealing multiple felony…
By T.S. Carter | LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – As of Monday, August 25, Timothy Balch is interim director of Lanier County’s Emergency Management Agency. The hitch is, Balch is also chief of School Police for Lanier County as of two (2) weeks ago. You can’t do both, the School District told Balch this week, insisting…