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School bus drivers, crossing guards lose summer jobless benefits

...Richmond County Sheriff's Office to apply for the benefits ever since the group was assigned to Augusta-Richmond County government during consolidation.And despite the federal order, Richmond County guards never saw their benefits reinstated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-03-26/school-bus-drivers-cross
Augusta businesses, people got $400 million from federal government in 2012

...landed $37.2 million in U.S. Army contracts in 2012, according to the data.The consolidated Augusta-Richmond County government was Augusta's third-largest federal contractor last year, with a large water treatment project at Fort...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-03-29/augusta-businesses-peopl
Rants & Raves

...commissioners of color have a holiday trying to crucify Smith, Guilfoyle and Jackson for doing business with the broken Richmond County government. Censure or reprimand, I wouldn't give a hoot.MR. PRESIDENT, YOU were the one who approved the sequester...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-07/rants-raves
Hair-trigger reaction

...to 1,082. Cobb County saw an 89 percent hike to 1,212 last month."In Augusta, a recent spot check of Richmond County government by The Chronicle revealed 40 gun permit applications in a single day; they had been running at about 10 to 15...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-01-14/hair-trigger-reaction
Disparity exists in Augusta's property tax system

The disparity is built into the consolidated Augusta-Richmond County government's charter ? two overlapping tax districts in which property owners pay for government services in two distinct and, at times, unequal ways.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-09-15/disparity-exists-augusta
Public invited to revived July Fourth signers ceremony

...10 a.m. Wednesday.The tribute will be at the Signers Monument on Greene Street in front of the Augusta-Richmond County Government Center, said James R. Hanby Sr., a 1989 graduate of Hephzibah High School and a justice of the peace in...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-07-02/public-invited-revived-july-
University of Phoenix-Augusta center is named for educator

...at Aiken Technical College and Southern Wesleyan University. He also was a safety officer for the Augusta-Richmond County Government Risk Management office.His legacy also will continue through the Chester Mallie Willis Sr. Scholarship Fund...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2011-07-06/university-phoenix-august
Peggy Ann Barnes (AUGUSTA, Ga.)

...Cemetery. Miss Barnes was born in Augusta to James Lester and Lena Gertrude Corley Barnes. She retired from the Richmond County Government where she served as Deputy Clerk with the Civil and Magistrate Courts. Miss Barnes was a lifelong member of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/obituaries/2011-07-07/peggy-ann-barnes-augusta-ga
Augusta City Administrator Fred Russell finds few friends on commission after awarding pay raises

...Corey Johnson did not return calls requesting comment.While administrators over the consolidated Augusta-Richmond County government have taken heat from commissioners over the years, Russell's two predecessors left on their own for other...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-08-13/augusta-city-administrat
Former commissioner likes life across river

...taking him closer to his family home near Bath ? was one Cheek made after years of frustration with Augusta-Richmond County government and its schools."I was pretty fed up and kind of had a revelation after all those years of fighting," the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-10-09/former-commissioner-like