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Information for students with disabilities and their families will be available Saturday at the CSRA Transition Resource Fair.

The event is a joint effort between numerous agencies.

“The fair is intended to share information regarding available resources in the community for individuals with disabilities,” said Teri Pettyjohn, coordinator of special services for the Columbia County Board of Education. “The specific goal is to help students and their families learn about how to plan for transition to adult living post high school.”

Bobby Culpepper ended a more than six-decade family tradition last week.

The Harlem mayor permanently closed the doors Saturday of Culpepper Ford, a family-run Ford dealership in Thomson.

“You have to make the best of it and move on,” said Culpepper, owner of the dealership started by his father, Bill, in 1949.

The dealership ended sales on Saturday, but some service work trickled over into this week.

Culpepper cited an economic recession and financial woes for closing the dealership after 63 years.

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Columbia County commissioners approved a bid Tuesday for a Martinez drainage project from which they fired the original contractor last year.

Evans-based Blair Construction Inc. won the nearly $327,000 bid to finish the stormwater project on Sandalwood Drive in the Springlakes neighborhood.

The project to finish widening the culverts and parts of Reed Creek that feed the subdivision’s 20-acre lake should conclude in 60 days, said county Water Utility Director Bill Clayton prior to the meeting.

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An Evans woman became combative early Friday after deputies pulled her vehicle over to find out if she was involved in a single-vehicle wreck.

When she was stopped by authorities, Ophelia Pantera Overton, 19, of the 770 block of Laurel Springs Court, first refused to get out of her vehicle, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.