Butts County Sheriff Gary Long deputized Jackson Police Department officers on Wednesday, June 25 at a ceremony held at Jackson City Hall.

Jones Petroleum Company founder and CEO Bill Jones is pictured in one of the three conference rooms at the company’s new headquarters building in Jackson. Jones Petroleum this year is celebrating 50 ...

Mayor Carlos Duffey said that the Jackson Tree Board, the city of Jackson, and the local garden clubs went beyond celebrating nature on Arbor Day 2025.

Ed Whitehouse, a consultant for a local company called Interstate Health Systems, stands on a plot of land in rural Butts County. The company envisions replacing acres of farmland and trees with a new ...

Tristian Navarro, 25, of Jackson, an inmate at the Butts County Jail, died Thursday, May 8 after being held in observation for a hunger strike.

Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Whitt, a 2012 Jackson High School graduate, serves the U.S. Navy as an independent corpsman assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command in Rota, Spain.

The Butts County Extension office will offer a pesticide license CEU class on June 21. Credits will be given for pesticide categories 10, 21, 23 & 24. The class will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at ...

Mamie Crawford, right, retired from the Board of Education after two terms. She is shown accepting an award of appreciation from Superintendent Brent Lowe. The Butts County NAACP Chapter has ...

Visitors to Jackson who enter the city on S. Mulberry Street/Ga. Highway 36 will now be greeted by a “Better Together” mural painted by local artist Will Rivera. The mural was funded by a donation ...

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled on Jan. 19 that it is unconstitutional for Butts County Sheriff Gary Long to place warning signs in the yards of sex ...

Carson and Haley Browning believe that garden landscapes are integral to the value and pleasure people get from their homes.