Houston County voters will decide just two local races in their May 20 primary.

Three people qualified for the Post 6 seat on the board of education currently held by Jim Maddox.

They are Sheila Ashley, Griff Clements and Hoke Morrow. The race is non-partisan.

Two Repubicans are running for clerk of state court: incumbent Kendra Hancock Simons and challenger Alyson Stuckart. No Democrats qualified for that race, so the winner of the May primary will be elected unless a write-in candidate comes forward.

These candidates have no opposition: Jason Ashford, judge of state court; Marianne Melnick, Board of Education District 2; Fred Wilson, Board of Education District 4; Rick Unruh, Board of Education Post 1 (special election): county commission chairman Tommy Stalnaker; and Post 2 commissioner Jay Walker.

If necessary, the Post 6 runoff would be held July 22.

On Saturday, March 8th at 8:00 A.M.; a road race will commence.  The race will assemble, begin and end at Houston County High School on Highway 96.  

The roadways to be taken are as follows:

Rear of Houston County High School
Bear Country Road
Entrance to Perdue Primary
Panda Parkway
Jerry Barker Drive
Sutherlin Drive
Cohen Walker Drive

Please use caution in this area or choose an alternate route.

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Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex is in last place when it comes to repairing aircraft on-time.

It's number three of the three Air Force maintenance depots in the US, based on numbers from the service's leadership.

Aircraft come to Robins from around the country for repairs. Like with maintenance performed at a car shop, Robins customers expect to get their vehicles, aircraft, running on-time.

That's happening far less at Robins than at the nations two other Air Logistics Complexes.

At Tinker in Oklahoma City, their workforce finished repairs on-time 100-percent of the time last year and for the first quarter of this fiscal year.

At Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, they returned their aircraft to service on-time at a 97-percent rate in FY '13, and about 91 percent so far in FY '14.