{"id":420193,"date":"2026-10-06T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420193\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:02:08","slug":"courthouse-lawn-sidewalk-tree-well-upgrades-begin-oct-6-downtown-square-stays-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420193\/","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse lawn, sidewalk tree well upgrades begin Oct. 6; downtown square stays open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLQUITT, Ga. &#8212; Drivers and downtown visitors in Colquitt should expect parking disruptions starting Oct. 6, as work begins on improvements to the courthouse lawn and sidewalk tree wells.<\/p>\n<p>City police will be working to ensure vehicles are out of the way for equipment and for staging new trees on the inside of the downtown square. The city apologized for the disruption to parking and downtown activities.<\/p>\n<p>The courthouse will remain open during the work, and shops and restaurants downtown will also stay open.<\/p>\n<p>The project is scheduled to be finished by Thursday, with the inside of the square expected to reopen first.<\/p>\n<p>The downtown improvements are being funded through a grant from the Georgia Tree Council and the Georgia Forestry Commission. City officials said the work is aimed at enhancing safety and creating better shade in historic downtown Colquitt.<\/p>\n<p>A live oak tree on the square will not be removed. It is only being pruned by a trained arborist, with the goal of helping the tree\u2019s crown grow taller after previous limb cutting caused it to stretch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLQUITT, Ga. &#8212; Drivers and downtown visitors in Colquitt should expect parking disruptions starting Oct. 6, as work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-420193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}