Sparta gets $128K federal grant for road, street safety plan

Sparta will receive $128,000 in federal funding to develop a comprehensive Safety Action Plan to improve road and street ...
WJBF Augusta on MSN

Medical units, deputies on scene of Hancock State Prison, sheriff’s office says

According to the Hancock County Sheriff's Office, medical units and deputies are on the scene of Hancock State Prison on ...
Action News Jax

‘We lost a gem:’ Police dispatcher from Sparta, Ga., killed in hit-and-run in Jacksonville

The city of Sparta, Georgia, and its police department are coming together to honor a dispatcher who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Jacksonville. A candlelight vigil is being held for Mary Jones ...
WMAZ

Controversial railroad cutting through family land in Sparta receives another greenlight

SPARTA, Ga. — A controversial railroad that would cut through a historically Black neighborhood of Sparta was given another green light from the Georgia Public Service Commission on Thursday. The ...
PBS

The Spark in Sparta

Urban farming examples from front yard gardens to a mushroom-growing warehouse. This tiny Georgia town was one of many that never fully recovered after the boll weevil decimated the cotton industry in ...