Congressman Deal is pleased that the Hall County Farm Service Agency office will remain open, ... Agriculture is No. 1 in economic impact in Georgia and is most important in this area because of the poultry industry.

Our charge was to look at the facilities and to look at the county farm. There are a lot of options to move forward with. I can't say what two weeks will cost us that much. Just because we aren't recharged doesn't mean we won't talk about it amongst ourselves.

The [Internal Revenue Service] says we are manufacturing, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture says we are agriculture. They are definitely not in agreement.

I am very pleased that Houston County News will join our group of community newspapers. Tom and Jean have worked very hard to build this newspaper, which will make a fine addition to our group of weekly newspapers.

There are so many of those local areas of open water, there's just no way we could find them all. We just don't get involved; that's up to the local snowmobiling groups.

There are no laws that I know of, from speaking with the state's attorney's office, that requires a body to be embalmed. However if that's what you paid for, we're treating this as a theft of service or fraud. The family believed they paid for one thing and they received another.