The issue of observing the new Juneteenth holiday with a day off for Clarke County employees created a lot of discussion but the motion died from a lack of a second during the county commission meeting Tuesday. “Right now our road and bridge employees work four days a week and that equals 186 work days during the year, after we deduct the holidays that we already take,” Commissioner Jackie Ray Rush said. “We had 38 days where rain kept us from working and that leaves 148 days to work and we have citizens who complain about getting their roads fixed....

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