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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Council nods park master plan, downtown Covington traffic study firms Also approves company to renovate railroad bridge for Cricket Frog Trail The Dried Indian Creek Trestle Bridge is shown in this photo from 2018. - photo by Special to The Covington News
COVINGTON, Ga. Covington City Council has chosen the companies that will create a master plan for Central Park and recommend ways to improve downtown parking and traffic.
It also voted Monday, Feb. 15, to select a company to rebuild a former wooden trestle railroad bridge near Covington City Hall for use as part of the Cricket Frog Trail.
Dates to know for the March SPLOST VII special election
Local voters will soon decide the fate of the seventh installment of Dawson County’s Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax SPLOST VII.
With approved project lists from both the Dawson County Government and the city of Dawsonville, but no intergovernmental agreement between the two parties, the $60 million, 6-year penny sales tax continuation will go before voters in a specially called election on March 16, 2021.
According to Dawson County Board of Elections Director Glenda Ferguson, early voting for the special election will begin on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, and will last until Friday, March 12. Local voters can vote early at the Dawson County Board of Elections office, 96 Academy Avenue in Dawsonville, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. McCollar to assess ‘State of City’ amid Tuesday council sessions Mayor Jonathan McCollar
Mayor Jonathan McCollar plans to give his 2021 State of the City speech Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., the usual time of the month’s second regular Statesboro City Council meeting.
That meeting – with steps toward major improvements to two parks and a preliminary vote on a property maintenance code on the agenda – will then follow the mayor’s speech. The after-5:30 p.m. regular session will conclude a series of three public meetings in the City Hall council chambers set to start with a work session on multiple topics at 3 p.m.
Art will punctuate the new look of Clayton Street in downtown Athens
Two years after the East Clayton Street Improvements Project was approved, work continues on the transformation of downtown Athens. Trees were recently removed and trenches dug along the street for new utilities.
In the end, the street will be repaved and changed to two lanes; new trees will be planted; and new parking meters installed.
Last week, the Athens-Clarke County Commission heard an update from the man who will blend artwork into the streetscape project.
Eric Leshinsky, an artist and city planner from Annapolis, Md., was chosen by the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission to merge art into a project that covers three blocks of Clayton from Thomas to Lumpkin streets.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Construction begins soon on west Newton skateboard park 2017 SPLOST paying for master plan, first phase of facility s construction in Denny Dobbs Park The rendering shows how the skateboard park in Denny Hobbs Park on Georgia Hwy. 212 will appear when fully completed. - photo by Special to The Covington News
COVINGTON, Ga. Newton skateboarders may only have to travel to the county’s west side for a skatepark by the end of the summer this year.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners recently approved the use of Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) funds for construction of a skateboard park in Denny Dobbs Park on Georgia Hwy. 212.