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“We know that recovery is for the entire community,” Burgman said. “It affects us all, so we want to come together and celebrate.”

Dawson residents will have an opportunity Sept. 24 to question the city’s proposed budget before the City Council decides how to fund police, fire protection, streets and other services for the fiscal year already underway. But the documents available for review leave a basic question unanswered: How much does the city plan to spend, and what money will pay for it?

Twenty-five years to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, veterans and their families gathered Friday at Veterans Park to dedicate a monument to those who served in the Global War on Terror.

Georgia State School Superintendent Richard Woods said Thursday that a new partnership training Lee County High School seniors to become certified firefighters could serve as a blueprint for school districts across the state.

A white marble elephant statue was placed as a memorial to circus owner William F. Duggan, who is buried at a cemetery near Moultrie. Duggan’s grave sits next to his father George Duggan at the Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church cemetery.

Lee County will study traffic speeds along Winifred Road and consider lowering the posted speed limit following residential growth and the resurfacing of the increasingly traveled corridor.

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Ole Miss football coach Pete Golding is doing his best to keep the flames of a potential inferno under control.

“We know that recovery is for the entire community,” Burgman said. “It affects us all, so we want to come together and celebrate.”

Dawson residents will have an opportunity Sept. 24 to question the city’s proposed budget before the City Council decides how to fund police, fire protection, streets and other services for the fiscal year already underway. But the documents available for review leave a basic question unanswered: How much does the city plan to spend, and what money will pay for it?

Questions about unfinished audits, restricted state funding and an unbalanced budget dominated a Dawson City Council meeting that also included decisions on wastewater equipment, employee benefits, a police K-9 program and the city’s dormant downtown development board.