Tweet Family members of the teen who died last week in what has been dubbed a “car surfing” accident are convinced the police report is inaccurate. “The first two witnesses on the scene that stayed with Anna until the EMTs arrived both have said the first thing the driver kept saying was ‘she fell out [...]
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Tweet Family members of the teen who died last week in what has been dubbed a “car surfing” accident are convinced the police report is inaccurate. “The first two witnesses on the scene that stayed with Anna until the EMTs arrived both have said the first thing the driver kept saying was ‘she fell out [...]
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Tweet The city of Gainesville doesn’t have “an ugly history of discrimination,” Mayor Danny Dunagan said in a statement Tuesday night at the City Council meeting. The statement giving the city’s position on its at-large voting system, read by Dunagan on behalf of the council, seemed to be a rebuttal to nearly identical comments made [...]
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Tweet The city of Gainesville doesn’t have “an ugly history of discrimination,” Mayor Danny Dunagan said in a statement Tuesday night at the City Council meeting. The statement giving the city’s position on its at-large voting system, read by Dunagan on behalf of the council, seemed to be a rebuttal to nearly identical comments made [...]
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Tweet Gainesville City Schools Superintendent Merrianne Dyer will travel to Washington, D.C., next week, sharing information about collaborative educational methods that the system has implemented. She will speak on a Tuesday panel about the model of a full-service community school district, a system that the city schools have been implementing for the past few years. [...]
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Tweet Gainesville City Schools Superintendent Merrianne Dyer will travel to Washington, D.C., next week, sharing information about collaborative educational methods that the system has implemented. She will speak on a Tuesday panel about the model of a full-service community school district, a system that the city schools have been implementing for the past few years. [...]
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Tweet A Macon-based custodial company has agreed to a $16,000 settlement with a former employee who filed a federal sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit in 2011. Home Companions Plus Inc., which also is known as Angels at Home, provides custodial and personal care services. The lawsuit, filed in conjunction with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity [...]
Continue Reading Macon-based company agrees to $16,000 settlement in federal sexual harassment lawsuit
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Tweet A Macon-based custodial company has agreed to a $16,000 settlement with a former employee who filed a federal sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit in 2011. Home Companions Plus Inc., which also is known as Angels at Home, provides custodial and personal care services. The lawsuit, filed in conjunction with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity [...]
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Tweet The Bibb County school systems interim superintendent is having the first of two listening sessions Tuesday night at Central High School. Students, parents, school employees and any other residents are invited to the gathering to tell Steve Smith what they think the school districts priorities for improvement should be. The session begins at 6:30 [...]
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Tweet The Bibb County school systems interim superintendent is having the first of two listening sessions Tuesday night at Central High School. Students, parents, school employees and any other residents are invited to the gathering to tell Steve Smith what they think the school districts priorities for improvement should be. The session begins at 6:30 [...]
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