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How salaries stack up

How salaries stack up

Local LE struggling to fill positions

Jake Browning
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
 Local law enforcement agencies are finding it more and more difficult to fill positions with qualified officers, and officials say that the areas they serve are suffering as a result.
Press photos/Barbara McRae - Rita St. Clair, secretary of the FROG board, examines hops found growing on the Greenway. They were probably cultivated by Timoxena Siler Sloan, who farmed this land in the 19th Century.

Press photos/Barbara McRae - Rita St. Clair, secretary of the FROG board, examines hops found growing on the Greenway. They were probably cultivated by Timoxena Siler Sloan, who farmed this land in the 19th Century.

Hops on the Greenway

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Barbara McRae bmcrae60@gmail.com.  The Greenway section known as the Old Airport Trail evokes memories of aviation’s early, adventure-filled days, but its history goes back much, much farther.
Photo submitted Paul Snow pleaded guilty in a hearing on Aug. 25 in Macon County Superior Court. At right is Snow’s attorney, Tony Dalton.

Photo submitted Paul Snow pleaded guilty in a hearing on Aug. 25 in Macon County Superior Court. At right is Snow’s attorney, Tony Dalton.

Snow gets 25 years in deaths of mother, sister

News Staff
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Paul Snow pleaded guilty Aug. 25 in a Macon County courtroom in the 2016 shooting deaths of his mother and sister. Snow, 54, admitted in court that he killed his mother, Sunshine Snow, and his sister, Jacquetta Snow, according to district attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch.
Allen W. Brown, a Christian rapper and evangelist, signs Carissa McGaha’s shirt during the Aug. 30 Save the Children event in Franklin.

Allen W. Brown, a Christian rapper and evangelist, signs Carissa McGaha’s shirt during the Aug. 30 Save the Children event in Franklin.

Save the Children shines light on child trafficking

Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Community members gathered Sunday in support of the fight against child trafficking. Jennifer Hayes, one of the organizers, said the more she learned about child trafficking, the more she wanted to join the fight against it. “We got more angry the more we found,” she said.
Covid

Covid

Macon suffers three COVID-related deaths

Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Macon County Public Health reported three more coronavirus-related deaths on Aug. 31, bringing the number of total fatalities to seven since the pandemic began. All of the deaths have occurred with people over the age of 65.
Press photo/Jake Browning - Rowan Morgan is now a full-time homeschool student, a decision his mother made due to frustrations with virtual learning.

Press photo/Jake Browning - Rowan Morgan is now a full-time homeschool student, a decision his mother made due to frustrations with virtual learning.

Remote learning gets mixed reviews

Jake Browning
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
With four Macon County schools shutting down in-person instruction because of COVID cases and quarantines, remote learning is becoming more important to local education than ever, but parents and teachers have very different ideas about how the practice has worked so far this school year.
Press photo/Linda Mathias - Andrew Latorre shares a laugh with Tom Tyre as he works on the mechanical Democracy Machine at their home in Otto.

Press photo/Linda Mathias - Andrew Latorre shares a laugh with Tom Tyre as he works on the mechanical Democracy Machine at their home in Otto.

Finding art in unexpected places

Jake Browning
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Most people wouldn’t look at a printer someone ditched on the side of the road and see a piece of a sculpture, but most people don’t work for Cinnamon Hill Art. Andrew Latorre and Tom Tyre have been in their house in Otto for the past 19 years.
Voting

Voting

Macon seeing flood of absentee ballot requests

Lee Buchanan
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Macon County elections officials are reporting a huge surge in requests for absentee ballots for the November election. The Macon County Elections office had received 1,484 absentee ballots as of Aug. 20, compared to 935 for the entire 2016 election cycle.
Virtual learning

Virtual learning

Four schools halt in-class instruction

Jake Browning
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Jake Browning reporter@thefranklinpress.com Just over a week after students returned to Macon County Schools classrooms, positive cases of COVID-19 have put teachers in quarantine and forced the suspension of in-person classes at some schools. On Saturday, Aug.