With a light agenda for its final meeting of 2017 on Thursday, the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors looked ahead, not to the new year but to today.
More specifically, the board looked forward to 4 p.m. today, which is when the stock market will close for the last time this year. At that point, the supervisors will know how much their Hospital Trust Fund has earned and, more importantly, how much of those profits they can withdraw for capital improvements. Under the law governing the county's
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