Eatonton is a classic example of an all-American Southern town, complete with a courthouse square.

But the iconic Putnam County Courthouse dome was damaged during hailstorms last winter.

"It tore up the roof and all the metal around the edges," says Putnam County maintenance technician Torrey Whittaker. "So they're going to have to replace it."

Now, scaffolding covers the front of the dome as crews have been working to fix it for the last four months.

Fixing the courthouse roof and the clocktower cost just over 400 thousand dollars, according to County Manager Paul Van Haute.  The county is also working on a few other hail-damaged properties such as the old armory and old jail.

Whittaker expects the work to be complete in a few more months.  Some locals say they're excited.

Deer hunting is right around the corner and the Department of Natural Resources is hosting a deer quota hunt.

The state says a quota hunt works like this: they choose specific areas highly populated with deer and you're with a set number of hunters.

The quota is used for conservation, so that rangers can manage the specific area and it's considered a safe experience because it's well-coordinated.

In all, DNR is arranging 27 deer quota hunts throughout Georgia.

One of those quota hunts will be in Forsyth at the Rum Creek Wildlife Management Area on October 31-November 2.

To sign up for the deer quota hunt, apply online by September 1.

Fifty years ago this month, Martin Luther King told America about his dream.

In August 1963, he delivered his "I have a dream" speech to a huge crowd in Washington DC.

That became one of the landmark moments of the civil rights movement.

This week and next, thousands of Americans will travel to the nation's capital to commemorate that day including many from Central Georgia.

But it's also a time to remember the way it was, how America changed and why.

When getting a drink at a fountain came down to color and the ease of buying a car was based on what you looked like, that was Central Georgia 50 years ago.

In that time Felton Miller lived according to the rules of black and white.

"You were white and I was black. They didn't care about me than a rabbit out there in the woods," he says.

Miller, now 83 years old, was born and raised in Jones County. The segregated South was what Miller described as hard and unfair.