Lee County school bus involved in accident

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LEESBURG — Officials with the Lee County School System announced on the system’s Facebook page that one of its buses had been involved in an accident around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

The system said that Lee County Fire-Rescue personnel arrived at the scene on Lovers Lane Road quickly to evaluate the students on the bus. Four were taken to the hospital with what were described as “non-life-threatening” injuries.

School System Transportation Director Latesha Wilson came to the scene to check on the safety of the students and to make sure all were picked up by parents.

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Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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