Area briefs: School Boards consider budgets, NE Ga peach growers struggle

The Clarke County School Board, at its meeting last night on Prince Avenue, set June 28 and 29 as the dates for adopting the latest School District budget and setting the District millage rate.

The Madison County School Board, meeting in Danielsville, works to finalize the latest Madison County School budget. It’s expected to top out at just over $66 million. That would be up from $59 million last year.

The Elbert County Appraiser’s Office says Elbert County property assessment notices will hit mailboxes next week.

The Stephens County Industrial Development Authority, meeting in Toccoa, signs off on a memorandum of understanding a Korean company that is looking to manufacture lithium ion batteries at an industrial park in Toccoa.

The Sheriff’s Office in Hartwell is the latest to issue a warning about scam calls: scam artists are calling, claiming to be from the Hart County Sheriff’s Office and telling their would-be victims to make online money transfers to avoid arrests.

Growers in northeast Georgia say this year’s peach harvest will be down in a dramatic way: Drew Echols, operator of Jaemor farms in Lula—one of the biggest peach producers in this part of the state—says he expects his crop to be off by as much as two-thirds from an average year.

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