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Readers of the Times have relied for decades on the inclusion of public records such as police reports, property transfers and notations of both marriages and divorces in Washington County in addition to public meeting announcements, legal advertisements and obituaries.Then the coronavirus pandemic added an extra hurdle in 2020 to fulfill the expectation of printing public records.
The challenge: Past inclusion of many public records required physical, weekly visits into separate county offices for manual input.
Washington County Probate and Juvenile Court Judge Tim Williams adjusted his office’s software output last year to provide marriage records digitally in response.