Category: City

Salary cuts, $1,000 fee per student, 35 percent tuition increase, and shorter semester hours are just some of the drastic measures on the table as part of the state’s latest budget cut efforts.
University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis presented a proposal Wednesday morning to the Georgia General Assembly. It is part of the [...]

People in the community visited the past in order to change the future as the Valdosta Task Force held a forum Tuesday night raising awareness about violence in the Lowndes County.
City officials, pastors, off duty police officers and retired law officials were in attendance.
Though numerous topics were discussed, the main topic was public safety.
During the [...]

 Georgia House Bill 615 will be presented on March 3. If the bill goes through, one will be allowed to carry a weapon on any Georgia college campus with a permit.  Bill 615 would affect at least 400,000 Georgians who hold gun permits.�
 Republican House Representative Tim Bearden is co-sponsor of this bill.  He explains the [...]

 Last Thursday, the VSU Police Department arrested a suspect in the recent indecent exposure cases throughout Valdosta, after he was reportedly seen engaging in a sexual act in a stairwell of the Education Center.
 According to VSUPD, around 1 p.m at the Education Center, a student, whose identity is not being released, was using the copy [...]

Some VSU students attended a tour and press conference with Mayor of Valdosta John Fretti this past Tuesday Oct. 27.
Students in VSU’s 3510 News Writing class arrived for class downtown at City Hall around 11 a.m. Â
A tour of City Hall was given to students by Public Information Officer Sementha Mathews, during which she gave [...]

On Tuesday, Mayor John Fretti announced The Electronics Recycling Event, for the City of Valdosta’s attempts to go green.
 The event, in association with the City of Valdosta Public Works Department, Keep Valdosta/Lowndes Beautiful and Atlanta Recycling Association, will host the event at Mathis City Auditorium on Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. People [...]

On Oct. 8, the Valdosta City Council made changes to the Stopping, Standing, and Parking Ordinance (2009-43) at the City Council Meeting.
The ordinance now more clearly defines illegal parking and better explains the material that can be used for driveways and limitations on parking in front yards, according to the Valdosta City Website.
Before [...]

Rachel Wayne
Copy Editor
vrwayne@valdosta.edu
 Valdosta got a red carpet event for the opening of the zombie comedy movie “Zombieland,� which opened last Friday to the No. 1 spot and enjoyed a $24.7 million opening weekend. Thursday night, hundreds of people showed up at Valdosta Stadium Cinemas for festivities leading up to the midnight showing. As the movie [...]

Arel Felton
Staff Writer
arfelton@valdosta.edu
VSU will be hosting its 10th anniversary Scholastic Book Fair at the Dewar College of Education Sept. 8 through Sept. 14 with the hopes of instilling a love for reading in children..
The fair will be open on the first floor of the Education building from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and will close [...]

Amy Johstono
Staff Writer
acjohstono@valdosta.edu
 Patrol cars from counties and cities across South Georgia lined the corner of Oak Street and Baytree Road at 8:00 last night for a sobriety checkpoint as part of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety’s 18th Annual Hands Across the Border.
 Georgia officers teamed up with its five bordering states for a six-day highway [...]

Attention off-campus students: as you may be aware, the City of Valdosta has put into effect a residential parking ordinance (No. 222-11 and 222-12). The ordinance states that “no more than five vehicles [may be parked] in the front yard and ALL vehicles on the property must be parked on an improved surface [i.e. surfaces [...]