🌱 Alma residents tied to alleged farmworker visa fraud scheme.

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• Alma residents tied to alleged farmworker visa fraud scheme.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 90 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Cloudy, a t-storm in the p.m., temps: high: 90, low: 68.
• Saturday: A stray afternoon t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 71 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Feds indict five in Georgia agricultural visa fraud scheme (regionalmedianews.com) — Several people living in Alma have been indicted in a federal case alleging they abused the H-2A farmworker visa program to smuggle and exploit foreign laborers. Prosecutors say the scheme involved fraudulent paperwork, improper payments, and confiscated IDs, with potential decades-long prison sentences if convicted. The investigation involves multiple federal agencies and highlights broader nationwide visa-fraud crackdowns.
   

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Thursday September 17

• 2026 Homecoming Parade
  Bacon County School District Alma, GA 31510, USA
  5:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Blackshear

• Patriotic pride on full display for Blackshear's ‘9-12 in the 912' parade (theblacksheartimes.com)
• GA Power helps bring Lanna Denison's legacy and a new BES playground to life (theblacksheartimes.com)
• Pierce County Foundation for Excellence in Education offers three awards to local students (theblacksheartimes.com)

Douglas

• Douglas man sentenced to 60 years in prison for child sex crimes in Coffee County (walb.com)
• Coffee Co. man arrested after allegedly filming women in college bathroom stalls (walb.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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