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Midstate roads to get $10.5 million for upgrades
Middle Georgia roads are about to get millions of dollars in upgrades. The Georgia Department of Transportation said it announced bids that included: • about $3.6 million to resurface more than 15 miles of Ga. 87 in Monroe County, from near Taylor Road to the Butts...
Encore Plastics coming to Forsyth, GA
An Ohio plastics manufacturer on Monday purchased the former Trane building in the Monroe County Industrial Park to put a distribution and manufacturing plant there.
Governor Announces Relocation of Corrections Headquarters to Forsyth
State to Save More than $4 Million per Year when DOC moves to Tift College Campus ATLANTA - Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that his FY07 budget will include $7.5 million to allow the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) to begin the relocation of its Atlanta...
GRAD Site in Monroe County
IDI’s Meridian 75 Logistics Center at I-75 in Smarr has been accepted into the Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development Sites Program (GRAD Sites Program). The GRAD Sites Program designates property as ready for industrial development.
City is first to endorse motto Public Safety Capital of Georgia
Monroe County is one step closer to being recognized as the Public Safety Capital of Georgia. Forsyth's city council last Tuesday unanimously endorsed a resolution created by the Leadership Monroe Class of 2010 that could bring more notoriety to the county as a leader...
Georgia Department of Corrections – State Offices South at Tift College
Featured Site in Pro Power Supply's Pulse Newsletter October 2011 Founded in 1849 as the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute, Tift College, as it was later named had a 40 acre campus located 20 miles north of Macon. It remained a private liberal arts women's college,...
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Mary Persons High School in Forsyth GA among nation’s best high schools
Northside and Mary Persons high schools have made the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best high schools in the nation for 2013. Northside High School in Warner Robins is ranked 38th in Georgia and 1,850th nationally, while Mary Persons High School in Forsyth is...
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The Development Authority of Monroe County is happy to report that the framing crew is busy making things happen at the Driver’s License building site. See More

The pad is poured! The Driver’s License and CDL facility is taking shape, and the Development Authority of Monroe County is looking forward to welcoming See More

The Development Authority was humbled to attend the 2023 Georgia Public Safety Memorial Ceremony this morning at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center. It is See More

The Development Authority is cleaning out and making repairs to the retention pond at Indian Springs Business Park as we look at all the possibilities See More

The Development Authority appreciates Monroe County Hospital, Head Heating and Air, Chick-Fil-A owner/operator Craig Craddock and Perdue Farms Inc for hosting “Externship Day” where 17 See More

“Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down”, BUT seeing all the progress Appling Brothers is making on the new Driver’s Services Facility site on See More

The Development Authority of Monroe County is making room for you! And me! We can now identify where we will turn into the parking lot See More

Once the new Drivers License Facility is completed on this property, maybe we can hire this guy to test for CDL licenses! He definitely has See More
