A reception for Clarke County School Superintendent Phil Lanoue is set for 4 o’clock this afternoon at the Athens Career Academy: Dr. Lanoue returns to Athens from San Diego, where he was named last week the National School Superintendent of the Year.

A public meeting is on tap for today in Athens: Athens-Clarke County officials are looking for public input on plans for two projects that will funded by local sales tax dollars. One is a fire station, the other a home for a Cooperative Extension Service Center. The 90-minute forum starts at 5:30 at the Government Building on Dougherty Street.

Today is an open house day at the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health: activities get underway at 3 o’clock this afternoon at UGA’s Russell Hall.

A meeting of the Educational Affairs Committee of the University of Georgia’s University Council is on tap for today, 3:30 in UGA’s New College building.

Oglethorpe County Commissioners meet, 6 o’clock this evening at the Oglethorpe County Courthouse in Lexington. Their Jackson County counterparts are also meeting, also at 6 o’clock, at the courthouse in Jefferson. And Madison County Commissioners are meeting, 6:30 at the Madison County Government Complex in Danielsville.

The Georgia Supreme Court takes up on Elbert County landfill case this week: arguments are set for Tuesday in the case of the Sweet City Landfill corporation, which is looking to operate on a 2750 acres in Elbert County. Elbert County Commissioners are looking to block the landfill.

The execution of a Barrow County woman is set for 7 o’clock tonight at the state prison in Jackson. Kelly Gissendaner—the only woman on Georgia’s death row—was convicted in 1997 for arranging the murder of her husband, who was killed in Gwinnett County. She was originally set to die last Tuesday, but that was put on hold because of a winter storm. Gissendaner would be the first woman executed in Georgia since 1945.

Hall County authorities are warning about a scam involving somebody pretending to be associated with Hall County Fire Services.  Hall County’s Interim Deputy Fire Chief Chad Black says several residents and businesses have reported being called or visited by a person who claims to be collecting funds on behalf of the Hall County Fire Department.

An audit in Gainesville uncovers upwards of $1.3 million in red ink a Hall County government housing program.

Today, the first Monday in March, marks the start of spring semester second session classes at the University of North Georgia.

Georgia now has a second person set for execution this month. 46 year-old Brian Terrell is scheduled to die next Tuesday for killing 77 year-old John Watson in 1992. That murder happened in Newton County. Kelly Gissendaner is set for execution tonight after her conviction for murder in the 1997 death her husband Douglas, who was killed in Gwinnett County. Gissendaner is from Auburn, the only woman on Georgia’s death row.

Police are investigating a deadly shooting in Gwinnett County: a man is killed and a woman wounded. It happened overnight in Lawrenceville.

A Dekalb County Commissioner wants the FBI to investigate a possibly bogus document that resulted in a $1.5 million contract award. It follows an AJC investigation pointing to Dekalb Development Authority Chairman Vaughn Irons getting the contract for his company.

Dozens of metro Atlanta college students will spend their Spring Break helping register voters Ferguson Missouri ahead of April elections. The NAACP says the students are from Clark-Atlanta, Morehouse, and Spellman. It’s part of a larger plan to honor the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

A weekend of racing ends with a familiar name taking the checkered flag at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton: six-time NASCAR champion Jimmy Johnson won Sunday’s Quick Trip Folds of Honor 500.

There’s a $5,000 reward for information about an Atlanta Wells Fargo robbery tied to a seven-car crash in Clayton County. All three armed men were, at last report, still at large. A Clayton County Police officer was among those injured in the wreck.

A Pickens County woman was killed in a weekend crash on I-575 in Cherokee County: Georgia State Troopers say Kristen Adams was driving her car the wrong way on the interstate. She collided head-on with a tractor-trailer rig north of Canton.

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