Area briefs: Dogs wrap up spring practice, Commissioners begin budget work

The Georgia Bulldog football team puts the wraps on spring practice with tomorrow’s G-Day game, a 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon scrimmage in Sanford Stadium. We are twenty weeks away from the Bulldogs August 31 season opener in Atlanta vs the Clemson Tigers.

Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating a report from a used car dealership on Atlanta Highway, where a Mercedes was purchased with what turned out to a bogus check worth more than $4,500.

Athens-Clarke County Commissioners are beginning the budget process that could result in four percent pay raises for Athens-Clarke County government employees. A Commission vote on an Athens-Clarke County budget is expected in June.

Madison County Commissioners meet today in Danielsville: an economic development planning session gets underway at 1 o’clock this afternoon.

Social service organizations in Madison County will get almost $50 thousand in grants from the Foundation of the Jefferson-based Jackson EMC.

The body of a man from Roswell, found at a rest stop on I-85 in Franklin County, has been sent to the state crime lab for an autopsy. William Newton was 76 years old. There was no immediate word from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on cause of death.