Henry County officials said last week that the ongoing search for a permanent county manager would be slowed down for a time, a decision that led to one of the two finalists for the job dropping out. Lyndon Bonner notified the Board of Commissioners that he was withdrawing his name from consideration, leaving current interim county manager Cheri Matthews as the only one remaining of the finalists announced by the board a few weeks ago.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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