Peach County News

A day with the tactical teams for the Houston County Sheriff’s Office or Warner Robins police were among the prizes auctioned off Wednesday at the annual luncheon for Macon Regional Crimestoppers.

A group looking to bring a charter school to Byron presented a petition outlining the proposal to the Peach County Board of Education Tuesday evening.

As youth career facilitator for the Middle Georgia Work Investment Board, McIntosh watches children as young as 14 learn how to get and keep jobs.

Noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Flint Energies Building, 900 Ga. 96 and Sutherlin Drive, Warner Robins.

Tawana and Reggie Snead tied the knot in a simple ceremony that lasted less than three minutes in a small Houston County courtroom.

Crawford County's minority population has reached 26.7 percent, according to Census Bureau statistics and USATODAY research.

The ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for Thursday at The Medical Center of Peach County represents the culmination of more than 10 years of work to provide Peach County with an updated hospital.

The Georgia Public Library Service and the state's Path2College 529 Plan once again are partnering on the summer reading program and its summer reading program sweepstakes, which will award a child with a $5,529 college-savings contribution.

Houston Healthcare and The Medical Center of Central Georgia announced Tuesday they are starting a collaboration that they say will bring better and cheaper health care to the region.

The Peach County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to close East Wesley Chapel Road and remove it from the list of unpaved roads maintained by the county.

A Perry man, who was wanted in connection with a shooting in Byron, was arrested Wednesday after police found drugs, weapons and $35,750 in cash at his residence, according to a news release from the Perry Police Department.

The small hospital, which has served the community for decades, is making way for a brand new, state-of-the-art facility in Byron, the new Medical Center of Peach County.

Prices will increase 5 cents in elementary schools and 5 cents in middle and high schools for regular-priced lunches.

The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has awarded a grant to the city of Byron to benefit The Medical Center of Peach County.

It’s lunch time at Hunt Elementary School, and 8-year-old Robert Jones has not touched his hamburger.

Prices at all schools will increase by 5 cents if the proposal is approved June 4 by the board of education.

A Kentucky woman faces two felony murder counts in Peach County for allegedly causing her 8-year-old daughter's death by methadone overdose.

The city of Byron has received a $374,377 grant to help with public roadway and sewer system improvements in relation to Peach County’s new hospital.

A 30-year-old Kentucky woman has been indicted by a Peach County grand jury on two counts of felony murder in the 2010 death of her daughter.