The United States Postal Service has opened up a Village Post Office in Brooks. The concept is new and Brooks is the sixth site in Georgia to receive the new service. The plan is to have just over 50 in the state by the end of the year.

One of the reasons is the diminishing hours at a number of local post offices. The Brooks Post Office, for instance, closes at 4 p.m.

The Brooks Library was chosen for this additional site and will be selling stamps as well as priority envelopes being available. Read More»

The Georgia Division of Midwest Food Bank located in Peachtree City is helping the tornado victims in Oklahoma by sending bottled water.

Within two days of the tornado, Bracken Stubbs, Midwest Food Bank truck driver, picked up a semi load of bottled water in Savannah and on Memorial Day he will leave for Springfield, Mo., to drop it off with Convoy of Hope for distribution to Oklahoma. Read More»

CUTLINE - Teacher Pipeline student Janileyah Thompson, L, who won a state-level gold medal at the recent Georgia SkillsUSA competition will go on to compete in the national SkillsUSA competitions in Early Childhood Education this summer. Thompson is pictured with Dr. Susan Mullins, director of Teacher Pipeline program at the Central Educational Center. Photo/Special. Read More»

Local residents will have to detour around a section of Redwine Road Friday to make way for the filming of scenes in a new movie version of “Endless Love.”

The road is slated to be closed from 2 a.m. in the morning of May 24 through midnight. Vehicles will be detoured onto Harris and Harp roads to navigate around the closed area, officials said.

Also, on the following Tuesday, May 28, there will be intermittent traffic delays on Redwine between Harris and Harp roads that motorists should be prepared for. Those delays will be ongoing all day from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Read More»