Monroe News

With a draft of the Monroe master plan and Smart Code in the hands of city leaders, the process of reviewing the document outlining a vision for the city's future will begin.

A Christian group brought its anti-evolution campaign to the University of Georgia campus in an unusual way Wednesday morning, passing out 2,000 free copies of the book usually credited as the foundation of the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Johnny Mathias Fearon Johnny Mathias Fearon, age 65 of Monroe, passed away Nov. 13, 2009.

After months of heated meetings, sitdowns and redesigns, Neighborhood Planning Unit F members on Monday night hoisted pink Post-It notes of disapproval in the air and voted overwhelmingly to reject theA Beltline's proposed vision for Northeast Atlanta.

While the goal is the same as last year, the help might not stretch as far as it did in years past.

A happy homecoming Tuesday night for more than 160 Georgia National Guard soldiers who were reunited with their families after a year serving in Iraq.

Monroe County deputies have released the name of a woman killed in a Thursday night car crash on Interstate 75.

All across Walton County, students, military personnel and the community gathered together in events to celebrate this nation's veterans.

Those darn trucks may be heading out of the city's downtown after all. The city council received some unexpected good news Tuesday when City Engineer Carl Hofstadter said he has been asked to prepare a schedule by the Georgia Department of Transportation for a two-lane bypass that will divert commercial traffic from the city's downtown.

A group of citizen-soldiers in the Georgia National Guard are back home after serving a yearlong deployment in Iraq.

A dog has been put down after it attacked a 3-year-old boy at a Monroe mobile home park last week.

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A Walton County sheriff's deputy has stumbled upon a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar drug operation in a Monroe home.

Mr. Robert E. 'Bob' O'Connor Mr. Robert E. 'Bob' O'Connor, age 76 of Calhoun died Sunday, Nov.

With no national, state or even countywide races on Walton ballots, turnout was low as only a few hundred people came out to vote in the various city elections.

Political newcomer Dan Curry was the leading vote-getter in Tuesday's Loganville election.

Doors have been opening up over the past four months and starting next week, Walton County's second free health care clinic for those without insurance will begin serving patients.

Monroe mayoral hopeful Wallace Beall says City Administrator Julian Jackson has too much on his plate to do an effective job and it is he who is running the city, not his opponent Mayor Greg Thompson or the city council as is supposed to be the case.

The city of Monroe has announced a series of public meetings Nov. 10-17, in downtown Monroe.