North Central Health District offering flu vaccines

MACON, Ga. — North Central Health District (NCHD) encourages all residents to visit their local county health department to get their annual flu shot. All 13 county health departments under NCHD, including Baldwin, are now offering the vaccine to residents who wish to protect themselves and their families this upcoming flu season. Each of NCHD’s 13 county health departments are offering flu shots for $25 each while supplies last. Each health department accepts cash, credit and debit cards and a variety of insurance plans. For more information on accepted insurance plans and service fees, visitNCHD52.org/cost.

 

Cohutta Post Office hosting passport fair

COHUTTA, Ga. — The Cohutta Post Office hosts a Passport Fair from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9. The post office is at 325 Wolfe St. International travelers needing to plan fall and holiday trips are encouraged to attend. The fair serves customers on a first-come, first-served basis. No appointments are needed. There is a limited capacity for acceptance. Saturday passport acceptance hours make it easy for families to obtain passports, allowing both parents to be present when applying for a child’s passport (requirement), Post Office officials said. Customers have the option of applying for a passport book (good for all international travel) or the passport card (good only for land and sea travel between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda). For more information about passport application requirements, costs and to download forms, visit the State Department’s travel website at www.travel.state.gov.

 

Ag museum hosts Abandoned Rural America exhibit

TIFTON, Ga. — A solitary chimney, covered with vines and weeds, stands as a silent memory of days gone by. A barn with one end of its tin roof collapsed will never again relive its glory days when it flourished as a center of agricultural activity.  These are the types of images that will be on display when the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village showcases a gallery exhibit and outreach program titled Abandoned Rural America. It begins with a reception at 2 p.m. on Sept. 16 in the Museum Gallery, according to an ABAC press release. The reception is open to the public at no charge. Many of the participating artists will travel from across the state to participate in a gallery talk, give tours, and answer questions about their work. For a taste of what the exhibit will offer, visit www.abandonedruralamerica.com. The Abandoned Rural America Exhibition and Outreach can be viewed by Museum visitors on Tuesday-Friday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. beginning Sept. 19. The exhibit will remain on display at the GMA Gallery until Jan. 17, 2018.

 

Moody AFB assists in hurricane relief efforts 

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE — The 347th Rescue Group from Moody AFB has sent aircraft and people to Texas to help with the relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey. Pave Hawk helicopters from the 41st Rescue Squadron, part of the 347th, is working out of Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas, flying sorties for relief efforts. A group of two Pave Hawks were credited with 11 saves on the first mission, according to Moody’s website. Since moving ashore Friday, Hurricane Harvey has dumped more than 50 inches of rain in portions of Texas, causing record flooding and costing at least 24 lives. The storm moved back into the Gulf of Mexico briefly and came ashore again in Louisiana, threatening more flooding.

 

Store clerks robbed on their way home

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Two convenience store employees were robbed early Saturday night while they were walking home from work. Shasin Patel, 38, and Nillem Patel, 35, had left the One Stop store located at 2527 S. Main St., when they were confronted by an armed male, police said. The robber took cash and their cell phones with a total value of $244.