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Hall County School Superintendent Will Schofield looks out over the 50 acre property off of Cleveland Highway that the school district plans to transform into an agri-business education center.
Currently, the roughly 51 acre property on Cleveland Highway recently purchased by the Hall County School District doesn’t look like much. The front portion of the property is mounds of turned up dirt while the back portion transitions into rolling hills of green grass.
But the members of Hall County Board of Education have big plans for the property- to transform it into an agri-business education center for students to learn more about the profitable world of agriculture.
The end of 2020 couldnât get here fast enough for many. Itâs been the year of the toilet paper shortage, face masks, quarantines, job losses and political strife. It will be remembered as the Presidential election year when a pandemic altered life for people across the globe.
Coronavirus affected life in Madison County, too. And there were numerous COVID-19 stories on the front page of The Madison County Journal in 2020, but there was plenty of local news not related to the virus this year.
Here is a look back at front-page news in The Journal in 2020:
JANUARY
â¢Madison County commissioners voted 5-0 to include a referendum on the 2020 General Election ballot to allow voters to decide on whether to give senior citizens a break on their property tax bills.
Long lines, crashing websites, conflicting information confound COVID-19 vaccine rollout to Florida seniors Elizabeth Weise and Michael Braun, USA TODAY
Florida prepares to distribute 1st vaccine doses UP NEXT
ESTERO, Fla. – Senior citizens spent a chilly night outside in a line that stretched for blocks as they waited to get into a park and rec center where COVID-19 vaccinations were offered on a first-come, first-served basis Monday.
At the front of the line were Marc and Mary Ravis of nearby Cape Coral. They arrived around 7 p.m. Sunday, two hours after the immunization clinic was announced by the Lee County Health Department.
ESTERO, Fla. – Senior citizens spent a chilly night outside in a line that stretched for blocks as they waited to get into a park and rec center where COVID-19 vaccinations were offered on a first-come, first-served basis Monday.
At the front of the line were Marc and Mary Ravis of nearby Cape Coral. They arrived around 7 p.m. Sunday, two hours after the immunization clinic was announced by the Lee County Health Department. I really need this vaccine, Mary Ravis said. She and her husband, 69 and 72 years old, respectively, have underlying health conditions. We figured it would fill up fast.