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News Articles: houston county

Ewes and lambs stand inside of a pen in the Silicon Ranch lambing barn on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, at Houston Solar Project in Elko, Georgia. The lambing barn, which finished in late 2023, currently holds hundreds of sheep and lambs, which are monitored, recorded and then released out to the pasture. Silicon Ranch breeds its own sheep to enhance parasite resistance and to adapt to the climate in the southeast. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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  • Energy

Why 1,000 sheep graze this Houston County solar farm, and why it helps economy

The Houston Solar Project is a 68-megawatt, 705-acre solar farm that is also home to Katahdin sheep.

February 19, 2025
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  • Margaret Walker
11th Circuit Court of Appeals Atlanta

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  • Health

Anna Lange was denied coverage for gender-affirming care. Federal judges reheard her case this week

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case of Anna Lange, a sergeant with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office in Middle Georgia.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Lindy Savelle holds citrus fruit from her farm in a Kroger in Houston County, Georgia.

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  • Health

Looking for fresh local produce? This app connects farmers to major grocery chains — and your table

Georgia's citrus industry is growing, and an innovative platform called Foodshed is helping farmers sell their fruit to local consumers.

January 02, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton talks about his years as sheriff in this Telegraph file photo. Jason Vorhees The Telegraph

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  • Obituaries

Funeral plans for Houston County’s Cullen Talton, the nation’s longest serving sheriff

A funeral celebrating the life of Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton, a self-made lawman who became the nation’s longest serving sheriff, will be Wednesday at Southside Baptist Church in Warner Robins.

October 22, 2024
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  • Becky Purser
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  • Health

Houston County to offer monthly public health screenings at family resource space

A partnership between Houston County Schools and the county health department is bringing primary health care closer to where children, and their adults, spend time.

August 23, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Anna Lange, a sheriff's sergeant in Houston County, Ga., poses for a picture, Nov. 14, 2023. A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against the sheriff’s deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery.

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  • News

Appeals court upholds ruling requiring Georgia county to pay for a transgender deputy's surgery

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. Houston County Sgt. Anna Lange had sued Sheriff Cullen Talton and the county in 2019 after she was denied coverage.

May 14, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Earl The Elusive Peacock of Middle Georgia.

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  • News

Social media is abuzz with an 'elusive peacock' on the loose in Houston County

They say the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side, but folks in Houston County are asking about why a different bird is wandering about. Wandering the streets is a peacock, leaving onlookers surprised, social media delighted — and animal control on the hunt.

May 07, 2024
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  • WMAZ
A room for primary care at the Twiggs County School District's new school-based health center. This clinic will be one of about 30 new or expanded school based health centers to be up and running over the next few years.

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  • Health

Georgia is installing more health care clinics on school grounds. How has that worked so far?

A state investment of $125 million dollars from federal COVID relief funds is helping grow school-based health through grants issued by the Georgia Department of Education.

April 17, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
In this Nov. 14, 2016, file photo, a haze hovers over the Atlanta midtown skyline from a wildfire burning in the Northwest part of the state.

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  • Climate

These Georgia counties have work to do to meet stronger EPA air quality standards for soot

Not long after receiving its first passing grade for ozone pollution from the American Lung Association, Fulton County is one of five Georgia counties that need to reduce soot in the air because the Environmental Protection Agency finalized stronger standards.

February 13, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Sen. David Perdue poses for a photo with Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton.

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  • News

At 91, Georgia's longest serving sheriff says he won't seek another term in 2024

A 91-year-old Georgia sheriff says he will hand in his badge after more than 50 years as the county's chief lawman. Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton has told WMAZ-TV that he won't seek reelection in 2024 and will step down at the end of his term.

September 20, 2023
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  • Associated Press
 Anna Lange, a sergeant in the Houston County Sheriff’s Department, at her home in Georgia Credit: Annie Tritt, special to ProPublica

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  • Health

This Georgia county spent $1 million to avoid paying for one employee’s gender-affirming care

Officials in Houston County said gender-affirming surgery for sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange was too costly. They spent more than $1 million on private lawyers in a fight to keep transition-related care from being covered by their health plan — far more than it would have cost the county to offer such coverage to all of its 1,500 health plan members.

March 21, 2023
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  • Aliyya Swaby and
  • Lucas Waldron
High school football game

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  • Children's Health

These Four Middle GA High School Football Games Have Been Canceled Due To COVID-19

Four Middle Georgia high school football games have been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.

August 26, 2021
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  • Justin Baxley
Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins

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  • Health Care

Atrium, Houston Call Off Hospital Deal, Citing Pandemic Pressures

Two Middle Georgia health systems have called off their proposed combination, saying the COVID pandemic played a major role in the breakup.

February 26, 2021
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  • Andy Miller
Leaders in Houston County have formed a complete count committee to encourage participation in the 2020 census.

How Leaders In Houston County Are Preparing For The 2020 Census

With just under 100 days until Census Day, communities across Georgia are working to get the word out about the population count that happens every 10...

January 14, 2020
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  • Robert Jimison
President Trump speaks to reporters on June 18, 2019, the day he tweeted that the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants would soon begin. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has said a more modest 2,000 will be targeted.

Kept Or Not, Trump's Immigration Promises Change Lives

Most weekdays, Ana wraps up cleaning houses around 4 and gets in her car. That’s when she starts her second job: cruising the streets of Houston County...

June 23, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
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