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Despite some precipitation in the month of January, we continue to experience drought conditions in Walker County. Rainfall in December was 1 ½ inches below normal. 2024 was the 37th driest year in the past 130 years. We were nearly 6 inches below normal in rainfall last year.

The City of LaFayette will hold a special election on March 18th. Voters will be seeking to fill the Ward 1 City Council seat. That seat was vacated by the passing of Councilman Beacher Garmany. The deadline to register to vote is February 17th. Early voting starts February 24th and runs through March 14th. Saturday voting will be available March 1st and March 8th. You can request an absentee ballot by contacting the Walker County Board of Elections. March 18th is election day. Polls will be open from 7am to 7pm.

Some Republican Georgia lawmakers are poised to expand Medicaid in the state. However, Governor Brian Kemp has put his political capital into a state-run program called Pathways. Along with another program called Georgia Access, Kemp claimed two weeks ago the state is already doing better than Medicaid expansion. Kemp had mostly shut down Republican backing for Medicaid expansion — until this week when four Republicans added their signatures to a Democrat-sponsored bill seeking Medicaid expansion. Backers say it would give access to health care to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who can’t afford it.

The Honeybee Festival in LaFayette is set for May 31st. Vender registration is now open. You can find more on the city’s website. You can find the link and more details over at DiscoverWalker.com.