Found on the Lowndes County government website: Hazard Mitigation Public Hearing (10/17/2011) PUBLIC HEARING ON HAZARD MITIGATION MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011 6:00 P.M. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 327 N. ASHLEY STREET COMMISSION CHAMBERS – 2ND FLOOR For more information please contact EMA Director, Ashley Tye, at 671-2790. SO I called Ashley Tye, who said:
This is what NOAA Weather Radio would tell you right now. I know this stuff because a friend called and told me to check on the Internet. But people who can’t afford $21 for a radio don’t have Internet connections; some don’t have telephones. When there’s severe weather frequently telephones don’t work, either. The red […]
Are NOAA Weather Radios “wasteful spending”? We’ve already seen staff present the case for about 5,000 NOAA Weather Radios at $21.50 each, paid for out of grant money. They made that case at the 8:30AM 7 Feb 2011 Lowndes County Commission Work Session. At the regular session the next day (5:30 PM Tuesday 8 Feb […]
We’ve already heard about NOAA Weather Radios from two different citizens, Nolen Cox and Ken Klanicki. What are they talking about? As usual, much of the discussion was in the work session (8:30 AM Monday 7 Feb 2011), available here in two parts. In Part 1 staff talks about buying about 5,000 NOAA weather radios […]
Two Regular Sessions back, they started with a moment of silence for Mike Everett, recently deceased employee of the Public Works department. The obituary in the VDT, 14 July 2014, Michael Thomas Everett, a senior heavy equipment operator with Lowndes county and long time resident of Berrien County, GA, died unexpectedly on July 9, 2017 […]
Received yesterday via email: Dear Stakeholders, I am pleased to let you know that the Valdosta Urbanized Area Transit Implementation Study is well under development and it is time to share the draft recommendations with you and with the community. With your help, we reached over 500 members of the community through our online survey […]
What if, in addition to the record floods of 2009 and 2013 and 2014 apparently caused by local lack of planning in our watersheds, what if we got 15 inches of rain in one 24 hour period like Pensacola did a few weeks ago? Local governments might get sued by insurers for lack of planning, […]
Somebody is willing to read the sunshine writing: Renewables are Winning, Nukes are Dead and Coal is Crashing, as Kathleen Rogers and Danny Kennedy wrote for EcoWatch 14 Dec 2012. As I wrote back in April when formerly coal-plotting Cobb EMC went solar: Coal is dead. Nuclear is going down. Solar will eat the lunch […]
With all precincts reporting in the Republican Primary Runoff for Lowndes County Commission District 5 (West half of the county), the numbers are: Jody T. Hall 48.06% 855 John P. Page 51.94% 924 Total votes 1,779 So how is the election not decided yet? Provisional ballots, which won’t be completely sorted out until Friday. Those […]
Parker Wallace wrote for GPB 1 August 2012, Water Program Awards Loans, The Governor’s water supply program awarded funding to eight water supply projects across the state. The Georgia Environmental Finance Authority and the Georgia Department of Community affairs announced more than 90 million dollars in loans. They’re aimed at helping finance water supply infrastructure. […]