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A Georgia School District Closed All Its Schools After Snakes Were Seen — One of Them Inside a Building

By Plainly Now News Desk Published August 7, 2026 Updated August 30, 2026

A row of brick storefronts along the main street of Sparta, Georgia, with parked cars, benches and trees in leaf under a clear sky.

Hancock County School District in Sparta, Georgia, about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta, kept all three of its schools – an elementary, a middle and a high school

Big Bear’s Bald Eagle Jackie: Her Final Weeks of Treatment, and the Cause Vets Never Found

By Plainly Now News Desk Published August 4, 2026 Updated August 13, 2026

AI-generated illustration: Big Bear’s Bald Eagle Jackie Takes a Turn for the Worse, and Vets Still Don’t Know Why

Jackie, the bald eagle who has spent years captivating fans of a livestreamed nest near Big Bear Lake, California, was doing better.