Officials are still working to finalize plans to honor 12 Black soldiers and two white soldiers whose names were omitted from the World War I monument at the Lowndes County Courthouse. Aiming to correct the longstanding oversight, plans for either creating a new monument or adding to the current one have stalled since last year. “We just had other fires burning,” Trip Hairston, board of supervisors president, told The Dispatch. “That’s something…
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