City declares emergency, urges people to limit events

The Social Circle City Council is expected to declare an emergency related to the coronavirus outbreak during a special called meeting Monday night.

Jeff Foster is going all-in on the judicial seat he qualified to run for this week.

Newly appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stopped by Stanton Springs Industrial Park on Monday, her first trip to this region of Georgia.

Charlie Akin, a former vice chairman of the city school board, is running for the Social Circle City Council.

Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a Gwinnett County judge.

Hal Dally presided over his final meeting as mayor of Social Circle this month, capping a decades long run as a civic leader in his hometown.

State energy regulators approved a rate increase for Georgia Power Co. on Tuesday that will raise its basic service fee for residential customers during the next three years by $168 a year.

Kenneth Malcom, who was convicted of murder in the death of Jonathan Gresham, was sentenced to life without parole plus 25 years.

Social Circle voters were choosing their mayor, a City Council representative and two members of the school board Tuesday.

A Covington man has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a Social Circle woman in early October.

New Social Circle police Chief Jeff Fuesting has been, to some degree or another, involved in law enforcement his entire life.

Monroe attorney Jeffrey L. Foster has announced he is running for a position as a Superior Court judge in the Alcovy Circuit.

Two Social Circle residents were among five people arrested as Morgan County deputies say they've taken down a major player in east metro meth sales.

Two women were hit by a driver who fled the scene Monday night in Covington.

Chevada McCamy, who grew up in Covington but graduated from Social Circle High School, said this week she is running for a seat as a Superior Court judge.

Candidates for mayor and City Council faced off Monday night in Social Circle.

If Walton County to avoid becoming like Gwinnett County, it will take planning. Because much of the inertia, the private development, and the pressure, is to become like Gwinnett.

The biggest obstacle to Walton County’s growth is under all of our feet.

The races for city offices in Walton County continued to fill up Thursday, the next to last day of qualifying.

Only one person qualified to run for city offices in Walton County on Tuesday, the second day of qualifying.

All five members of the Monroe City Council whose terms expire this year have qualified to run for reelection.

A Social Circle man was killed when he drove his motorcycle into the path of another vehicle near Monroe.

A Newton County jury apparently agreed with a prosecutor's assessment of James Gary Hill III as "a selfish, violent predator."

Fred's said this week it will close its Social Circle store.

Come 8 a.m. Monday, Robbie Hooker will be ready to go on the first day of his new job leading the Social Circle City Schools.

A Social Circle man has been booked into the Gwinnett County jail on charges of sex crimes against children.

The Social Circle Board of Education is still trying to balance its preliminary budget for the upcoming school year as a current shortfall in revenue has the school district looking to its fund balance to cover expenditures for the next year.

Dozens of people planned to protest an event space proposed for Double Springs Church Road. It turns out they didn't have to do anything to get their way.

Impact fees on new building in Walton County will require a vote of commissioners later this year.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has earned federal approval for a second product made at its Stanton Springs facility in Walton County.

Three solar projects announced by Gov. Brian Kemp will bring jobs to rural southwest Georgia and help power the Facebook data center under construction at Stanton Springs.

Newton County deputies arrested a Covington man after he was found asleep in a stolen car in a driveway in Social Circle.

Twenty-seven new homes will be coming to Social Circle after the City Council approved a project on Thurman Baccus Road.

Debate continues to simmer over a Georgia State House bill that would limit local government’s abilities to enforce design standards on one and two bedroom homes.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — A woman was found dead in the Hard Labor Creek Reservoir, a day after she left her home in a canoe.

A Social Circle man was charged with firing a gun in the Oakwood city limits.

The occupants of a duplex may have been using their oven for heat, leading to a fire early Thursday.

One person was hurt Thursday morning in a fire in Social Circle.

A multibillion-dollar deal has brought Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda to Walton County.

A Social Circle man pleaded guilty this week to stealing protected sea turtle eggs last year on a visit to the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Shire, one of Walton County’s largest employers, has a new owner.

A Social Circle man is due in court Wednesday on charges of stealing two turtle eggs from a beach last summer.

Voters in Walton County cities will go to the polls in 2019 to select leaders.

Walton County turns 200 on Saturday.

A brief trial covers the final moments of Katie Mobley's life and the chase the followed for her killer, her estranged husband, Jerome.

A teenager was arrested at Social Circle High School in conjunction with a shooting in Newton County.

The four-county Joint Development Authority and Shire are now involved in the dispute over emergency services between Social Circle and Walton County.