Zen Monkey’s – News and Musings
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- Congressman Brian Jack (GA-03) spoke at a ribbon-cutting celebrating a historic milestone,
the first new water intake on the Chattahoochee River south of Atlanta in more than 100 years.
The $65 million project, including the new $27 million Chattahoochee River Raw Water Pump Station, creates a reliable new water source for the Coweta County Water & Sewerage Authority.
- Actual Headline: “Dog shoots woman with a shotgun at Nebraska convenience store.”
- One of the least helpful things in the world is a toddler trying to be helpful.
- Join the city of Newnan for six free informational sessions to learn how the City of Newnan is run
by each department head. The program will run between September and October.
Applications must be received by Friday, June 26. Contact by Communications Manager Aimee Hadden.
- Considering how dangerous and powerful they are,
it’s a shame no sports team uses the hippo as a mascot
- Actual newspaper headline:
“Woman killed by flying umbrella while dining outdoors at South Carolina restaurant.”
- If you punch yourself in the face, does that make you weak or strong?
- Chattahoochee Riverkeeper has started up its Swim Guide for the summer of 2026.
From Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends, CRK will publish a Swim Guide, an interactive map with red or green lights, to help you decide if it is safe for primary contact recreation
at popular swimming spots on the Chattahoochee River.
- Leading child safety and well-being organizations, The Anxious Generation Movement,
Smartphone Free Childhood US, Institute for Families and Technology, and Becca Schmill Foundation, said Georgia’s new law strengthens the state’s “B” grade on the Phone-Free Schools State Report Card. H.B. 1009, sponsored by Rep. Scott Hilton (R-GA) and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA),
bolsters existing state law by extending the bell-to-bell ban on student use of personal electronic devices through 12th grade.
- The hardest thing to put in a sandwich bag is a sandwich.
