Area briefs: Election Board meets, students begin spring break

A special called meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Elections Board is on tap for today, underway at 4:30 this afternoon at the Lexington Road headquarters of the Athens-Clarke County Facilities Management Division.

School’s out: students and teachers in Clarke and Oconee counties are out for a week of spring break, not back in class until Monday of next week.

A man from Stephens County is indicted on a murder charge in Franklin County: 53 year-old Julius Dorsey is accused of providing the methamphetamine that led to the 2023 death of 40 year-old Lisa Milligan.

The pilot of a small plane that crashed near Jasper was flown by a helicopter to a hospital: Pickens County Fire and Rescue says the small plane apparently clipped a power pole.