Officials say plans are in the works to help expand vaccine availability by potentially receiving shipments of the recently approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
$552M allocated for rental assistance in Georgia
$552M allocated for rental assistance in Georgia By Cindy Centofanti | February 23, 2021 at 9:20 PM EST - Updated February 23 at 10:09 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - As the pandemic continues, many renters are on the brink of eviction and the demand for rental assistance programs throughout the community is sky-rocketing.
Some new funding awarded to the state through the Federal Emergency Rental Assistance program could help alleviate some of the pressure though.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says $552 million will be put aside and given to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to distribute to landlords and community outreach programs that qualify.
CCG honors lives lost to COVID-19 during memorial ceremony
CCG honors lives lost to COVID-19 during memorial ceremony By Brennan Reh | February 23, 2021 at 11:32 PM EST - Updated February 23 at 11:58 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Columbus city employees and officials honored the several hundred lives lost to COVID-19 in the Fountain City with a memorial ceremony Tuesday evening.
This comes on the heels of the ceremony held at the White House Monday where President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris remembered the more than 500,000 American lives lost due to the virus.
Ahead of Tuesday night’s Columbus City Council meeting, the City Manager’s Millennial Roundtable (CCMR), partnered with Mayor Skip Henderson and city council for a COVID-19 memorial honoring the 310 lives lost in Columbus due to COVID-19.
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The original title of this poem was
Derelict and written by a Kentucky poet in 1891. Young E. Allison (1853-1932), of Louisville published his long and gory impression of a rhyme from a popular novel of the day in the Louisville Courier-Journal. He promoted
Derelict as a reminiscence of Treasure Island the adventure novel penned by Robert Louis Stevenson.
As the authors original title points out, the verse is about a ship found adrift at sea. The crew have all done each other in and left behind a ship laden with plunder. The discoverers of this shipwreck of flotsam and jetsam have tossed the dead overboard with a