Americus Mayor Barry Blount welcomed Southwest Georgia city managers who gathered at the Historic Windsor Hotel in Americus Friday when the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) hosted one of its regional meetings for the benefit of municipal administrative leadership.
The meeting of the Dawson County Republican Party drew a crowd of nearly a hundred people to the Bowen Center for the Arts to hear the candidates for sheriff speak.
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