Morgan County CItizen
WON MORGAN!
Jake Simmons may have said it best. An overtime layup with time expired from Butler’s DeCore Fleming swirled twice around a tightening rim in Macon during a dramatic state championship game before rolling out, no good. Simmons, the father of senior...
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MACON, HERE WE COME!
From the pulpit of churches to the stage at the Madison Morgan Cultural Center, the word of Morgan County High School’s boys basketball win in last Friday’s Final Four game in Douglasville spread like wildfire across the county. In announcing the...
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LOOKING FOR ANSWERS
Not even a sitting U.S. Senator can get any answers from the federal government about the coming $128 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center to the small city of Social Circle. Georgia U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock says it’s...
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MEMORY & MEANING
The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC) hosted a special Black History event last Sunday titled Memory & Meaning In The Rural Black Church, exploring the role of black faith communities sustaining the civil rights movement through slavery,...
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‘The work is not done yet’
The annual Morgan County Branch of the NAACP’s Black History Month Religious Service, held at Calvary Baptist Church in Madison last Sunday, focused on learning from the resilient ancestors who fought for justice and equality for African-Americans and...
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A BUCKEYE NOW
Last Wednesday, Brody Jenkins was in class at Morgan County High School when a text came to his phone. The man texting asked Jenkins, a senior at Morgan County High School, if he could take a short call. Of course, Jenkins replied, “you bet...
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‘Honored & humbled’
It keeps getting better and better for Morgan County teacher Rachel Kinsaul. Not only did she receive a $25,000 check for winning the coveted “Oscars of Teaching” Milken Educator Award in early 2025, but she was also selected in May as the 2026 Georgia...
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MINOR IMPACT
While weather forecasts were looking bleak for most of North Georgia, including Morgan County, local officials say the community fared better than expected during the Winter Storm Fern that spanned across more than two dozen states over the weekend and...
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Remembering the Dream
The Morgan County Branch of the NAACP celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 19 at the annual prayer breakfast at Source of Light Ministries in Madison, attended by local elected officials, pastors, and community...
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PARKING FEUD
Pat Reams is mad as hell and he is not going to take it anymore. “I have put signs up all around my private parking lot and I am not going to take them down no matter what the city says. They can cite me all they want, they can take me to court,” said...
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Morgan farmer featured on national news segment
Last week, CBS News featured Lee Nunn, a local Madison farmer, in a story about the coming $12 billion farm aid package that will send some American farmers a single payout to partially counteract mounting losses that have accumulated in recent...
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LEAVING A LEGACY
Betsy Wagenhauser, a Madison city councilwoman and owner of the historic Bonar Hall property, is donating a conservation easement of 16 acres of the pristine property to the Madison-Morgan Conservancy (MCC) and hoping other property owners in Madison...
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BUILDING COMPROMISE
A proposed building for downtown Madison was approved by the Historic Preservation Commission with the elimination of a straight roofline much discussed at a previous meeting. After nearly an hour and a half of discussion on Dec. 9, the commission...
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PROJECT VOTE POSTPONED
Developers for a controversial downtown development project pulled two zoning requests moments before the Madison Mayor and City Council’s meeting Monday evening meeting, surprising members of the city council and members of the public in attendance to...
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